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The Valley audiobook

  • By: John Renehan
  • Narrator: George Newbern
  • Category: Fiction, War & Military
  • Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
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The Valley Audiobook Summary

*Named one of Wall Street Journal‘s Best Books of 2015
*Selected as a Military Times‘s Best Book of the Year

 “You’re going up the Valley.”

Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst.
 
When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land.
 
The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time.

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The Valley Full Details

Narrator George Newbern
Length 12 hours 36 minutes
Author John Renehan
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 09, 2024
ISBN 9780698188860

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Additional info

The publisher of the The Valley is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780698188860.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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