Escape from Baghdad!, Saad Z Hossain
Escape from Baghdad!, Saad Z Hossain
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Escape from Baghdad!

Author: Saad Z Hossain

Narrator: Elias Khalil

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/03/2020


Synopsis

Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum that needs to be filled. Religious fanatics, mercenaries, occultists, and soldiers are all vying for power. So how do regular folks try to get by?

If you're Dagr and Kinza, a former economics professor and a streetwise hoodlum, you turn to dealing in the black market. But everything is about to change, because they have inherited a very important prisoner: the star torturer of Hussein's recently collapsed regime, Captain Hamid, who promises them untold riches if they smuggle him out of Baghdad.

With the heat on and nothing left for them in Baghdad, they enlist the help of Private Hoffman, their partner in crime and a U.S. Marine. In the chaos of a city without rule, getting out of Baghdad is no easy task and when they become embroiled in a mystery surrounding an ancient watch that doesn't tell time, nothing will ever be the same. With a satiric eye firmly cast on the absurdity of human violence, Escape from Baghdad! features shades of Catch-22 and Three Kings while giving voice, ribald humor, and firepower to to people often referred to as "collateral damage."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick on June 25, 2015

Read this. Read it now. It makes me envious, determined to write another book. It would also be a spectacular movie if someone only had the balls for it. Telling, comic, violent, appalling, realist, magical, deranged, bleak, superb. If Jeanette Winterson and Hunter Thompson got high, got kidnapped b......more

Goodreads review by Kalin on February 04, 2021

What. Did I. Just. Read. Try and figure it out from my notes: [URL not allowed] Then come back and tell me. Please?......more

Goodreads review by Martin on February 03, 2015

I read Lavie Tidhar's post about this book, and got a copy for myself. I'm very glad I did. EFB is one of those wonderfully unclassifiable books that I love. (So many books are described as 'famous title meets famous title'.) The only book that came to mind after reading this was Alif the Unseen by......more