War and Sex

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Author(s)\Editor(s): Shallman, Morty – – Binding: HARD COVER BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20240508Standardized Book Category: Humorous – GeneralLanguage: \n \n EnglishPage Count: \n \n 00270Publisher Marketing: \n \n Morty Shallman’s War and Sex is the provocative, transgressive, and audaciously irreverent follow-up to his #1 Best-selling Absurdist Novel, The Tyranny of Desire, hailed as \”a comedic masterpiece\” by Readers’ Favorite and as a \”ribald and incisive provocation\” by Booklife.Part raunchy action comedy, part cunning political thriller, and part twisted romance, War and Sex tells the story of Captain Rod Solo, a Top Gun naval aviator turned ace CIA drone pilot with a problem: He can’t get it up when he’s trying to make love to his gorgeous wife, Lulu, and can’t get it down when he’s doing his job-blowing up terrorists via remote control for love of God and country.When Rod’s peculiar form of PTSD (post-traumatic sex disorder) leads to tragedy, he must trade the safety of his cubicle in Langley for the mean streets of Karachi-and the even meaner streets of Washington, D.C.-to seek and destroy his targets with his bare hands… or die trying.What follows is a darkly satirical skewering of American military misadventures and homeland insecurity in the post-9\11 era; a \”Catch-22 for the 21st Century\” that explores the absurd and often paradoxical dilemmas at the heart of America’s \”forever wars\” abroad, and uncivil wars at home.