Old Silk Road

A Novel

By: Brandon Caro

Narrated by: Aaron Abano

Old Silk Road is a prescient, powerful novel of the Afghan war by someone who's been there.

Norman "Doc" Rodgers suspects he won't make it out of this one alive. He's a young combat medic in Afghanistan, eager to avenge his father's death in the World Trade Center and make sense of a new world that feels like it's fallen to pieces. Haunted by hallucinatory encounters, his only solace is a barely concealed addiction to the precious opiates he's supposed to dole out sparingly to those beyond aid.

In this tautly plotted debut novel, Brandon Caro, a veteran who served in Afghanistan, tells the story of a soldier's undoing in raw, incendiary, hypnotic prose that forces us to ask ourselves what we know about the futility of war - and what other outcome we can expect.

©2015 Brandon Caro (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Brilliant

I heard of Brandon Carol through the Free Press, for which I believe he writes and is employed as a journalist. The book was mentioned in an article where I believe may be in his bio, and I decided to check it out. I am really impressed with the depth of this novel. I did not expect it to go in this brilliant circular way and reveal That the beginning is really the ending and vice versa. This is a great story. Would be a super interesting film.