2012 Longlist
The Sandbox
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Operating Base Cornucopia. A three-hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment, among them Private Toby Durrant, a self-described “broke nobody.” Then a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy. Insurgents massing in the nearby hills, a secretive member of military intelligence, an abandoned toy factory and a mysterious, half-feral child—Durrant must figure out the links between them if he’s to survive.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
The Sandbox by David Zimmerman is well-researched, highly crafted, suspenseful prose which keeps the reader involved from beginning to end.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Soho Press Inc.
Nominating Library