Betrayed, George Packer
Betrayed, George Packer
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Betrayed

Author: George Packer

Narrator: Kevin Daniels, Full Cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/25/2009


Synopsis

Based on the journalist-playwright’s original article in The New Yorker, Betrayed is the story of three young Iraqi translators who risk everything for America's promise of freedom while their country collapses around them. “The clarity of the writing, the urgency of the story being told … give the play a sharp dramatic impact and a plain-spoken beauty. Painful human experience is presented here as just that. Nothing else is necessary to awaken sympathy, despair and awareness of a grave moral failure on the part of the American government.” - New York Post

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jeremy Beck, Kevin Daniels, Andrea Gabriel, John Getz, Sevan Greene, Sam Kanater and Waleed F. Zuaiter.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

About George Packer

George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His previous books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). He is also the author of two novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny

Really well written with compelling characters and stories that seemed incredibly true to life. As a huge fan of the Generation Kill miniseries (still haven't read the book, I'm terrible) and wishing that I understood more about the Middle East in general, it was incredibly interesting to see the co......more

Goodreads review by Darius

Reading day-to-day life in Iraq was cool; I wish I'd also have seen it when they produced the play. I wonder if the characters would have sounded more complex than they read. The material's Very interesting to me, but seemed organized into a plot that's a little predictable and a few people that rep......more