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  • 02/2016
  • 9781468968033 B01C8FNMRM
  • 297 pages
  • $$1.99
Luke Baker
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Dateline Baghdad
Luke Baker, author
A young journalist, desperate to escape his dead-end job on a regional newspaper, talks his way into joining British troops being deployed to Iraq. Chaos and adventure ensue as he flees the British base and heads for Baghdad, hoping to be hired as an international correspondent. He ends up with more than he bargained for among the wily Baghdad press corps, including losing his head to a self-assured TV correspondent. When she is kidnapped, he has to decide whether to pursue her, and wonders whether he's doing it for her, or for the story.
Plot/Idea: 3 out of 10
Originality: 3 out of 10
Prose: 4 out of 10
Character/Execution: 2 out of 10
Overall: 3.00 out of 10

Assessment:

Baker somewhat misses the mark in his too-soon story of a small-time English journalist trying to make it big as a war correspondent in Iraq. The story follows Tom Monroe and his war reporter love interest, the preening Claudia, on their self-absorbed quest to capitalize on the conflict -- the Iraqi people and the war serve merely as a backdrop for their own personal and career development. Aside from a lack of character depth, the events of the story are familiar, and are only interesting when the action of the story pulls away from the protagonist to describe the places and people of the country. Though obviously knowledgeable of the conflict, Baker failed to show us what we didn't already know.  

Date Submitted: June 06, 2016

Formats
Kindle Edition eBooks Details
  • 02/2016
  • 9781468968033 B01C8FNMRM
  • 297 pages
  • $$1.99
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