Ebook: Consequence : a memoir
Author: Fair Eric
- Tags: Fair Eric., Iraq War 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives American., Military interrogation -- United States., Military interrogation -- Iraq., Linguists -- Iraq -- Biography., Government contractors -- United States -- Biography., Heart -- Transplantation -- Patients -- United States -- Biography., Iraq War 2003-2011 -- Prisoners and prisons American., Iraq War 2003-2011 -- Atrocities., Torture -- Iraq.
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Picador : Henry Holt and Company
- Language: English
- epub
A man questions everything—his faith, his morality, his country—as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay)
"I tell Karin there will be consequences for making my Iraq experience public. I say, 'People aren't going to be happy.' She says, 'As long as you think it's the right thing to do...' " -from Consequence
Consequence is the story of Eric Fair, a kid who grew up in the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants nurturing a strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his country. It is a story of a man who chases his own demons from Egypt, where he served as an Army translator, to a detention center in Iraq, to seminary at Princeton, and eventually, to a heart transplant ward at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2004, after several months as an interrogator with a private contractor in Iraq, Eric Fair's nightmares take new forms: first, there...