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Chapter Three (part two) finished

Thanks again for stopping by to check out chapter three.

So far there have been several hundred downloads of the first two chapters, so I'd love to get some feedback from listeners. As I mentioned last time, I broke chapter three into two parts, because it came out to almost an hour. Part two is 24 minutes, and follows the arrival of a new platoon sergeant who shakes up Chet's platoon on his arrival.

Listen. Enjoy. If you like it, pass the word to a friend -- word of mouth makes the biggest difference in the world for any project of this kind.

One interesting note. Reading the book outloud has been quite an experience for me, especially as it's been years since I've read it. I'm catching far more errors than I expected, and I think before I finalize the next one, I'll be doing the same with it. Originally the working title was Murphy's War, but the title has been done, so to speak. I'm working on a new one, and I'm working with an excellent editor who is slapping me around to make sure my prose is cleaned up before I go to print this time.

About Prayer at Rumayla:

Nineteen year-old Chet Brown arrived home from the Gulf War in the spring of 1991 and found that, for him, the war was only beginning. Betrayed by his friends and lover, ignored by his family, Brown travels across the country in search of meaning behind the horrors of his war.

“Bleak and disturbing... dead-on-target ...This first novel is a work of pure psychological conflict.” – Pulitzer Prize winning reporter John Hanchette, Reno Gazette-Journal

“Brutally honest, direct, and meaningful, Prayer At Rumayla is a compelling novel of coming to terms not only with dangers and traumas of the battlefront, but with its aftermath upon the lives of the surviving combatants.” – Midwest Book Review

Get Prayer At Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War

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