Demon Camp, Jennifer Percy
Demon Camp, Jennifer Percy
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Demon Camp
A Soldier's Exorcism

Author: Jennifer Percy

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/05/2014


Synopsis

In 2005 a Chinook helicopter carrying sixteen Special Ops soldiers crashed during a rescue mission in a remote part of Afghanistan, killing everyone on board.

In that instant, machine gunner Caleb Daniels lost his best friend, Kip Jacoby, and seven members of his unit. Back in the U.S., Caleb begins to see them everywhere—dead Kip, with his Alice in Wonderland tattoos, and the rest of them, their burned bodies watching him. But there is something else haunting Caleb, too—a presence he calls the Black Thing, or the Destroyer, a paralyzing horror that Caleb comes to believe is a demon.

Alone with these apparitions, Caleb considers killing himself. There is an epidemic of suicide among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, men and women with post-traumatic stress disorder who cannot cope with ordinary life in the aftermath of explosions and carnage. Jennifer Percy finds herself drawn to their stories, wanting to comprehend their experiences and pain.

Her subject, Caleb, has been bringing damaged veterans to a Christian exorcism camp in Georgia that promises them deliverance from the war. As Percy spends time with these soldiers and exorcists and their followers—finding their beliefs both repel­lant and magnetic—she enters a world of fanaticism that is alternately terrifying and welcoming.

With a jagged lyricism reminiscent of Michael Herr and Denis Johnson, Demon Camp is the riveting true story of a veteran with PTSD and an explora­tion of the battles soldiers face after the war is over. Percy's riveting account forces us to gaze upon the true human consequences of the War on Terror.

About Jennifer Percy

Jennifer Percy is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Capote Fellow and the recipient of an Iowa Arts fellowship from the Nonfiction Writing Program. Her honors also include a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on November 17, 2019

NEWS: [URL not allowed] greg loved this book. loved it. loved it so much he warned me that if i didn't like it, we would no longer be friends. no pressure, right? so i might be at risk of losing a friend here, but i have to say, while i liked this book, i do not feel the same love......more

Goodreads review by Greg on January 20, 2014

Until a few months ago I'm pretty sure that I had avoided reading any books about the recent war in Middle East. Then I read the Kevin Powers book, which was very very good even though I never did get around to reviewing it—and then boom, it seemed like I was reading lots of things about soldiers, l......more

Goodreads review by Sonia on February 25, 2014

This started out strong, interesting. The first part was about Caleb starting a career as a soldier and then becoming part of a special forces unit, which is hard core stuff, training for torture and the likes of that. Then his buddies from his unit die on a mission that he wasn't on, and it was lik......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on January 09, 2015

[Update: I changed my rating from 3 stars to 4 stars; I've recommended this book to several people, and although it isn't perfect, it's a book I'm very glad I read.] I was so sure I'd like this book; the subject matter is right up my alley, it has gotten good reviews from others, people I respect. An......more

Goodreads review by Erin on February 16, 2015

This book was weird, weird, WEIRD! I picked it up because I was interested to learn about the Demon Camp that purports to free Veterans from their PTSD symptoms. It started out promising, with the author tracking down those who have started the "camp" and their back-story. But the book quickly devol......more