Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green

: A Year in the Desert with Team America

Johnny Rico

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Presidio Press
15 August 2007

Autobiography: historical, political & military; Asian history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; War & defence operations

For readers of first-hand accounts in the war on terror such as One Bullet Away, The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell, My War, War Reporting for Cowards, and Love My Rifle More than You.

Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico's firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war.

No one would have picked Johnny Rico for a soldier. The son of an aging hippie father, Johnny was overeducated and hostile to all authority. But when 9/11 happened, the twenty-six-year-old probation officer dropped everything to become an ""infantry combat killer.""

But if he'd thought that serving his country would be the kind of authentic experience a reader of The Catcher in the Rye would love, he quickly realized he had another thing coming. In Afghanistan he found himself living a Lord of the Flies existence among soldiers who feared civilian life more than they feared the Taliban-guys like Private Cox, a musical prodigy busy ""planning his future poverty,"" and Private Mulbeck, who didn't know precisely which country he was in. Life in a combat zone meant carnage and courage-but it also meant tedious hours standing guard, punctuated with thoughtful arguments about whether Bea Arthur was still alive.

Utterly uncensored and full of dark wit, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is a poignant, frightening, and heartfelt view of life in this and every man's army.

By: Johnny Rico
Imprint: Presidio Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780891418979
ISBN 10: 0891418970
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 August 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Johnny Rico is the author ofBlood Makes the Grass Grow Greenand works as a freelance writer for magazines such asGQ, Penthouse,andMen's Journal.His assignments have seen him going undercover in the US Army's CONUS Replacement Center, interviewing mercenaries in Nepal, and racing across the earth as part of the Mongol Rally. He lives in the United Kingdom.

Reviews for Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green:: A Year in the Desert with Team America

"""'Breathtakingly, brutally and hilariously honest. This is the finest book about youth and war I've ever read.' - Clinton McKinzie, bestselling author of Crossing the Line"""