

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe and Refinery29 On the outskirts of Baghdad, Lieutenant Emma Fowler's platoon unwittingly rolls into a buried maze of...

The Good Lieutenant literally starts with a bang as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler of the Twenty-Seventh Infantry Battalion goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead--one, a young Iraqi, by her hand. Others were soldiers in her platoon. And the signals officer,...