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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson''s. Jonathan Franzen

Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . .

Tree of Smoke is the story of William Skip Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is bound to become one of the classic w

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/09/2008
      ISBN13: 9780312427740, 978-0312427740
      ISBN10: 0312427743

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

      One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

      The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson''s. Jonathan Franzen

      Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle,       The Christian Science Monitor. . .

      Tree of Smoke is the story of William Skip Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is bound to become one of the classic w

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