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The Girl in Green
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
B. Miller's striking follow-up to his much-loved John Creasey Dagger-winning Norwegian by Night.
Near Checkpoint Zulu, 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border, in 1991, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones, in part to avoid his lacklustre marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Hobbes is a Midwestern American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus or might be a brilliant lunatic with a death wish - it's hard to tell.
Operation Desert Storm is over, and peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is shot in the back and dies in Hobbes' arms. The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked for them both.
Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, the two men meet again. Benton and relief worker Märta Ström are persuaded by a much-changed Hobbes to embark on what may be a fool's errand in a last-chance effort to redeem themselves when the girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she?
Set against the war-torn landscape of a shattered Iraq, The Girl in Green is an adventure story told with all the wit, humanity and insight of Miller's acclaimed debut, Norwegian by Night.
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Critic reviews
"A provocative engagement with US foreign policy is matched to rich and multifaceted characterization." ( The Independent)
"Verdict: heart-thumping thriller." ( The Herald Sun)
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- Dearauntie
- 27-11-20
Rave review follows
I loved it. His Norwegian crime novels were excellent. This bounds ahead. Taken on plot alone, it's tight, tense and believable but you'd have read similar in the potboiler category. But this is different because you believe in the cast who have lives that matter not simply plot backstory. The story is happy, sad, engaging, funny, heartbreaking and insightful.
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- Paul
- 31-08-17
Even Better than Norwegian at night
I rarely bother to write reviews but thought I'd say this is a good listen. Interesting story that describes the world of NGOs in refugee camps combined with explanations of the middle east power struggles / factions plus the story twenty years apart of the girl in the green dress. Criticisms of the narrator about mispronunciation are unfounded. He does a great job. I recommend this and Derek Miller's other novel too. And the woodcutter by reginald hill. I just throw that in because I've found some of my best books by reading recommendations in other people's comments!
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- rhoda
- 14-01-23
Brilliant ! At so many levels
Intelligent, philosophical, emotional ,with deeply memorable characters and a great unfolding adventure x remarkable book
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- AM
- 27-09-24
A perfect war story - like being there
I love Derek B Miller. He's a genius at transporting you into the world he described. I don't know if he actually served in Iraq, but you feel as if he's almost writing a diary about the horror, the denial, the camaraderie, the PTSD. Gorgeous.
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