"My country is filled with the metal carcasses of Soviet tanks. "This is nice countryside," Khan said in Pashto, a dialect Muhammad spoke but one Adnan had little familiarity with. A few drops of rain fell against the window, and Khan idly watched them trickle down. He clicked the mag back in place and put the firing switch on two-shot bursts. He wore a hunter's camouflage jacket and was checking his machine gun with nimble fingers. Khan was large and muscular with a shaved head. The man next to him was an Afghan named Gul Khan, who'd been in the States only a few months. The man talking animatedly in Farsi on a cell phone was Muhammad al-Zawahiri, an Iranian who had entered the country shortly before the terrorist attacks on 9/11. There were two passengers in the backseat. He suddenly glanced out the window as he heard the sound overhead. He lifted a gloved hand from the steering wheel and felt for the gun in the holster under his jacket a weapon was not just a comfort for Adnan, it was a necessity. Indeed, the man was tired of things attacking him. Deer were plentiful here, and Adnan had no desire to see the bloodied antlers of one slashing through the windshield. Forty-one-year-old Adnan al-Rimi was hunched over the wheel as he concentrated on the windy road coming up. T HE C HEVY S UBURBAN SPED DOWN the road, enveloped by the hushed darkness of the Virginia countryside.
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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Copyright © 2019 by Katee Robert All rights reserved.Ĭover design by Oh So Novel Editing by Christa Desir Copyediting by Lynda Ryba You will never see anything-from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal-in quite the same way again. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how prosperity looks from the bottom. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity-a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. She also learned that one job is not enough you need at least two if you int to live indoors. 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