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A young veteran is torn between escapism and self sacrifice when he flees the Middle Eastern wars to Europe. REVIEW "In 2008, 26-year-old Jesse McCallister is fresh from the battlefields of Iraq. Rather than returning to the Army for an ordered third tour, Jesse ...flees his native Texas for Europe. "He'd just wanted to go," Perry writes, "and watch the flat horizons of the Iraqi desert and North Texas recede in his rear-view mirror." In Switzerland, Jesse falls in love with a beautiful Italian waitress named Sonya and falls in with a crowd centered around a wealthy young American named Michael Barnes...Jesse and Sonya soon marry, and the newly formed group of friends wanders down to the French Riviera. While the immediate moment is filled with pleasure, Jesse can't escape the traumas of combat in Ramadi...The novel resembles the post-World War I Lost Generation works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, most notably the latter's The Sun Also Rises ...The author effectively builds on his historical model while making it relevant to the key events of the contemporary era, such as the 2008 financial crisis and the Iraq War. A skillful tale of an American's trauma and expatriation."--Kirkus Reviews (May 2016)