The Men Who Stare at Goats

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Media tie-in

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Publisher's Synopsis

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all known military practice - and indeed the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror. So unbelievable it has to be true - journalist Jon Ronson's Sunday Times bestseller The Men Who Stare at Goats is the real-life account that inspired the film.

'Simultaneously frightening and hilarious' The Times

'Not only a narcotic road trip through the wackier reaches of Bush's war effort, but also an unmissable account of the insanity that has lately been done in our names' Observer

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Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330507707
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Media tie-in
DEWEY: 355.3430973
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 214g
Height: 199mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 20mm