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‘Sheepdogs' is a thriller that unravels some of the genre's tropes
What are we most concerned about when it comes to the U.S. military? How have those concerns shifted in the past decade? You can glimpse an answer to those questions by looking at the novels of Elliot Ackerman. A decorated former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Ackerman was part of the wave of American fiction writers who emerged from battle in the early 2010s with clutches of somber tales soaked in death and command mismanagement: Books such as Kevin Powers's 'The Yellow Birds,' Benjamin Percy's 'Refresh, Refresh' and Phil Klay's 'Redeployment' were joined by Ackerman's own acclaimed books, 'Green on Blue' and 'Dark at the Crossing.'
