{"product_id":"the-albatross-ledger-1","title":"The Albatross Ledger","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Phil Klay's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Missionaries \u003ci\u003eand Denis Johnson's\u003c\/i\u003e Tree of Smoke.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSanto Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold across three acts, \u003ci\u003eCareful Work\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIt's Not Enough\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTransferred\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Albatross Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. \u003ci\u003eThe Albatross Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e is his fifth novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plan B Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52938506731840,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/8604\/3456\/files\/AlbatrossFront.jpg?v=1786055778","url":"https:\/\/planbpubco.com\/products\/the-albatross-ledger-1","provider":"Plan B Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}