The sheltering

Name: The sheltering
Author: Mark Powell
ISBN: 9781611174342

by Mark Powell (2014)

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About this book

Luther Redding lost his job, and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters Katie and Lucy, when the real estate bubble burst in Florida. Now he pilots a Reaper drone over the mountains of Afghanistan from a command center in the bowels of Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base, studying a target's pattern of life and awaiting the command to end that life. Meanwhile Bobby Rosen has returned home from his tours in Iraq to a broken marriage and an estranged son, his promising military career cut short in a moment of terrible violence in a Sadr City marketplace. As the tales of Luther and Bobby unfold, Mark Powell masterfully engages with the vexing, bifurcated lives of combatants in the global war on terror, those who are simultaneously here and there and thus never fully freed from the life-and-death chaos of the battlefield.

Setting / LocationGlobal

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreThe sheltering Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Self-Help & Mind Families of military personnel Fiction War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Loss (Psychology)Fiction, psychological Modern Era

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