INTO THE SUN

Kabul - 10 years after 9/11: When a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of
the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the
vehicle's passengers were acquaintances - three fellow ex-pats who had
formed an unlikely love triangle.
Alexandra was a Canadian human rights lawyer for imprisoned Afghan
women. Justin was a born-again Christian from Louisiana who taught at a
local school. Clay was an ex-soldier who worked as a private contractor. The
car's driver, Idris, one of Justin's most promising pupils, is missing.
Convinced the events that led to the fatal explosion weren't random, and
curious to know more about what led each of them to Afghanistan, the
journalist begins researching their lives, following a trail from Kabul to
Louisiana, Maine, Québec, and Dubai.
In this monumental novel, Deni Ellis Béchard explores the personal impact
of America's imperial misadventures and draws an unsentimental portrait of
the journalists, mercenaries, messianic idealists, and aid workers who flock
to war zones. In vivid and evocative prose, Béchard brings to life the city of
Kabul itself, along with the people who live there: the hungry, determined,
and resourceful locals who are just as willing as their occupiers to reinvent
themselves to survive.