Description: Decades after evading conscription as a young man, Franco-British doctor Elie Paul Cohen is offered a deal by the French Army: he can settle his accounts by becoming a military doctor and serving at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan.
Brief description: Jessica Levine is the author of three novels constituting The Cousins Series. Interconnected, they can be read in sequence or as standalones. Three Cousins is the first in the series and a prequel to the others. Both The Geometry of Love and Nothing Forgotten made Booklist's Top 10 Women's Fiction list. She is also the author of Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a Mellow Fellow. She has been working as a hypnotherapist since 2005.
Review Quotes: "The unforgettable story of a man grappling with his destiny as an anti-militarist, emergency doctor and composer, who has come late to support the war against barbarism and terrorism, in the process reconnecting with the heroic virtues of his grandfather, a veteran of the Great War." --Jacques Demongeot, Professor of Medicine, mathematician, researcher. "An out-of-the-ordinary human adventure, an anti-militarist in the heart of the war machine in Afghanistan." --Professor René Frydman, research scientist whose work in infertility led to the first baby born through in vitro fertilization in France, in 1982. "The blood of poppies: an emergency doctor in the hell of the Afghan war." --Jean-Pierre Guéno, French author, historian, publisher. "It's absorbing, staggering, comic and tragic . . . Run fast and buy it, you won't regret it." --Chronique santé intégrative "Elie's astonishing destiny, vividly and poignantly narrated, offers a vertiginous dive into the heart of this new contemporary situation that has disrupted our lives, wars without front lines and terrorism. A journey that is out of the ordinary, thrilling, and marked by a great humanity." --Handicap. Fr