Daily Kos: Interview With a Combat Vet

by DarkSyde
Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 04:47:30 AM PDT

The mark of an exceptionally well written book is that the reader is transported into the story. You stand in the shoes of the main character[s] and see through their eyes. Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight For America From Baghdad To Washington is just such a book. In this epic story, the shoes are combat boots and the eyes you peer through are those of Iraq War vet Lieutenant Paul Rieckhoff, caught in the middle of a burgeoning, violent insurgency that war apologists did not plan for and even denied, as American casualties mounted.