Dimensions
129 x 198 x 26mm
BBC war correspondent Ben Brown has always been asked what it is like to work in war zones. His first novel answers that question, bringing to life the extraordinary range of experiences of a band of journalists reporting from Sarajevo, Rwanda and Chechnya in the 1990s.
Intertwined with a modern story set in post-liberation Baghdad, SANDSTEALERS is a highly autobiographical debut, powerful and terrifying in its resonance. It opens with the brutal death of Danny Lowenstein, a correspondent in Iraq. Held up at gunpoint, kidnapped and then murdered by a group of young Iraqi men, his fellow journalists are left to face the grim reality that this could have happened to any one of them.
This is fighting on the front line not by the troops, but by the world's media who also come face-to-face with unimaginable scenes of violence. Sweeping across the globe, 'Sandstealers' offers a vivid and compelling insight into a fundamental part of wartime conflict that is largely unknown.
