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The Trouble With Patriots: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Tony Hays
Publisher: Bridge Works
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1440054
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 248
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1882593529
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781882593521
ASIN: 1882593529
Publication Date: January 25, 2002
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Product Description
This humorous satire, mixed with intrigue and suspense, is set in Kuwait after the Gulf War. The American hero, Ed Duffy, an educated Tennessee ne'er-do-well, is sent their to teach English to Kuwaiti military personnel scheduled to come to the U.S. to learn to operate Patriot missles. The novel is based on the author's own experience doing the same thing.
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The Reviewers Blew it Again! December 27, 2001
Gabriel Welch (Jackson, TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Despite their much vaunted status as book reviewers, after I read the The Trouble With Patriots, I realized that Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus don't know anything about American tastes. Americans love humor, anytime. Why do they think so many Osama bin Laden songs popped up in the wake of 9/11? And the PW reviewer had the protagonist playing poker with American "slackers" when it was with British soldiers.Hays' book has some problems. It moves at lightning speed and sometimes the drinking bouts are a bit much, but he keeps your nose stuck in the book and leaves you laughing out loud most of the time. I give it a big thumbs up.
Advice to Critics: More Books and Less Television February 21, 2002
liz mills (Lawrenceburg, Tennessee United States)
This is a very well written tongue-in-cheek novel. Humour reigns supreme, with plenty of action and a murder mystery thrown in for good measure. A real page turner, the descriptions are realistic enough to suck you in. Not for the weak,however. You can almost smell the testosterone on these pages. ...
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