Brilliant ... a book for our times * Observer * Astonishingly brilliant -- BERNARD CORNWELL * Mail on Sunday * Spectacular ... an exhilarating rush * Sunday Times * Funny, damning, devastating * Independent * Vivid, resonant, thundering * Financial Times * A boneshaker * Scotsman * Bracing, fearless, uproarious * San Francisco Chronicle * Lean, direct, muscular ... almost certainly the first great novel about the Iraq war * Review 31 * An inspired, blistering war novel * New York Times * The kind of ambition that sent shivers down the spine of the young Tom Wolfe -- ROBERT MCCRUM Blistering, beautiful language with razor-sharp insight * Huffington Post * Breathtaking ... startlingly authentic -- PATRICK HENNESSEY A masterful echo of Catch-22 * Washington Post * Ben Fountain writes with sparkle and dark humour * Daily Express * The best novel yet written on Iraq -- SAUL AUSTERLITZ One of the important books of this decade -- MADISON SMARTT BELL Blazingly good -- DIANA ATHILL Exhilarating, funny, heartbreaking -- COLIN FIRTH