Synopsis
This is a true story.
Parris Island. August 1995. Sand fleas eating you alive and a drill instructor screaming so close you can taste his breakfast. I'm eighteen. Three pins in my shoulder from a war I was fourteen for. The other four don't know that yet. They don't know anything about me. I don't know anything about them.
Murphy. Rod. Danny. Toby. Me.
Five kids from five different Americas standing on yellow footprints at three in the morning wondering what the hell they just signed up for.
Thirteen weeks later we're not kids anymore. We're not five separate people anymore either. Recon takes what boot camp built and turns it into something that moves like one animal. Shoot, breach, crawl, kill — together, without thinking. That's the point. Don't think. Move. Breathe. Trust the man next to you because he's all you've got and you're all he's got and if either of you thinks too long you're both dead.
East Timor. Red dirt. No cameras. Children who don't look up when the helicopters come.
Then Congo.
There's a crater in a jungle and something happens in it that I can't undo. Three pounds of trigger pressure. That's what the title means. I won't say more than that. You'll get there.
After Congo I stop sleeping. I stop eating. I stop answering the phone. A hotel room in Crete with the curtains nailed shut and a bottle that's the only thing between me and the edge of something I can't come back from. Twenty-four missed calls. I don't pick up. Picking up means still being here and I haven't decided about that yet.
Three Pounds is Book One of the Three Pounds Trilogy.
My brothers decide for me.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS.Five Marines. One blood oath. Six years of keeping each other alive.Then Congo.Parris Island, 1995. A Croatian kid with nothing but ghosts and a desperate need to belong. He finds it in four men who become more than brothers - Rodriguez, Murphy, Doc, and Toby. They cut their palms in a hangar at midnight. Braca po krvi. Blood brothers.For six years, they survive what should have killed them. The kind of bond forged only in blood.And then they don't.Something happens in a crater in the jungle. Something Drazen will never speak of.He comes back wrong. Won't eat. Won't sleep. Won't meet their eyes.His brothers know he's drowning. They don't know why. They just know they're losing him.And they're right.Drazen is carrying a weight that's killing him from the inside - a three-pound secret dragging him toward a darkness his brothers can see but cannot reach.THREE POUNDS is about what we do for the people we love. What it costs. And whether the men who swore to die together can keep one of their own alive.Some weights can't be carried alone.Perfect for fans of Lone Survivor and The Things They Carried*, THREE POUNDS is a raw, unflinching look at the cost of war and the brotherhood that refuses to let go. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798244455601
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS.Five Marines. One blood oath. Six years of keeping each other alive.Then Congo.Parris Island, 1995. A Croatian kid with nothing but ghosts and a desperate need to belong. He finds it in four men who become more than brothers - Rodriguez, Murphy, Doc, and Toby. They cut their palms in a hangar at midnight. Braca po krvi. Blood brothers.For six years, they survive what should have killed them. The kind of bond forged only in blood.And then they don't.Something happens in a crater in the jungle. Something Drazen will never speak of.He comes back wrong. Won't eat. Won't sleep. Won't meet their eyes.His brothers know he's drowning. They don't know why. They just know they're losing him.And they're right.Drazen is carrying a weight that's killing him from the inside - a three-pound secret dragging him toward a darkness his brothers can see but cannot reach.THREE POUNDS is about what we do for the people we love. What it costs. And whether the men who swore to die together can keep one of their own alive.Some weights can't be carried alone.Perfect for fans of Lone Survivor and The Things They Carried*, THREE POUNDS is a raw, unflinching look at the cost of war and the brotherhood that refuses to let go. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798244455601
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