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is a timely
collection of stories that takes readers on a tour of the world as America’s
military-industrial complex reels into a new century.
Before penning the
book, author Derek Green spent more than a decade traveling the
globe—working in twenty-two countries on six continents as a contract
consultant for some of the world’s largest companies.
Drawing on his
experiences, Derek has crafted a sophisticated yet entertaining work of
fiction that captures the sights and sounds of Americans abroad in a
time of change and uncertainty—a book that turns the reader’s attention
outward, to a world where our role as Americans is no longer as clear
and secure as it once seemed.
For excerpts from the book, visit the Travels page.
“Written with grace, masterful precision and brutal
honesty, NEW WORLD ORDER shows us characters stripped of the familiar
and forced to face the world on its own terms. In Iraq, a young
man in search of a fortune makes a bargain he never imagined. An
adventure journalist on assignment in Australia finds himself at the
center of his own harrowing story. NEW WORLD ORDER announces
the arrival of a powerful literary voice, and places Derek Green in the
tradition of such worldly writers as Graham Greene, Paul Bowles and
Robert Stone.”
“Derek Green’s NEW
WORLD ORDER is full of the
eerie loneliness and hidden menace that comes with global travel in the
age of terror. These vivid stories about greed, fear, and the thirst for
adventure are also haunting, suspenseful dispatches from the front lines
and back alleys of America's corporate-military alliance.”
--Dean
Bakopoulos, author of PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON
“If Tom Perrotta
and Po Bronson met over drinks, these are the kind of rollicking stories
they'd share. Derek Green's
NEW WORLD ORDER is crisp, dry, and very wry—a perfect expatriate martini
of a book.”
--Alyson Hagy, author
of GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC and KEENLAND
“Derek Green has
pulled off a timely feat here:
a linked story collection about Americans at various hot spots
around the globe, from the deserts of the Middle East to
Australia,
South Africa
and beyond, unleashing their
money-making schemes and capitalistic dreams on foreign cultures they
struggle mightily to comprehend.
There is much to celebrate here: great writing, great
story-telling, and the opportunity to consider what being part of a
superpower really feels like when you're transplanted onto foreign
soil.”
--Cammie McGovern, author of EYE CONTACT and THE
ART OF SEEING
“Delve into any of these eleven highly entertaining
tales and you'll know what it is to be grabbed by the lapels and told a
story. Derek Green's characters are not men and women with quiet
lives and vague careers. Rather, they are vividly portrayed
operating in the deep recesses of the global economy…with surprising and
harrowing results. NEW WORLD ORDER is the real news, the kind you
can't find in the paper. Don't miss it.”
--Scott Lasser, author of BATTLE CREEK and ALL I
COULD GET
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