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A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko âe\" maverick, warrior, and the man who has saved Nair's life three times and risked it many more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe two men have schemed, fought and profited together in the most hostile regions of the world. 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Each meandering story--some utterly lacking in the usual elements of plot, including a beginning and an end--nonetheless demands compulsive reading, with Denis Johnson's first calling as a poet apparent in the off-kilter beauty of his prose. Open to any page and gems spill \"I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside that we'd have an accident in the storm.\"The most successful stories in the collection offer moments of startling clarity. In \"Car Crash While Hitchhiking,\" for instance, the narrator feels most alive while in the presence of another's \"Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead.... What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! 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