EMERGENCY SEX: AND OTHER DESPERATE MEASURES

EMERGENCY SEX: AND OTHER DESPERATE MEASURES
by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, Andrew Thomson

EMERGENCY SEX: AND OTHER DESPERATE MEASURES
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Author: Andrew Thomson, Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-10-02
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Miramax

Summary of EMERGENCY SEX: AND OTHER DESPERATE MEASURES

A new kind of war requires a new kind of war story. This scorching, devastatingly honest memoir is a first-of-its-kind confession of love, friendship, and betrayal of ideals from civilians who volunteered to be on the front lines.

In the early 1990s, three young people attracted to UN peacekeeping for very different reasons cross paths in Cambodia. Heidi, a new York social worker on the run from a marriage gone bust, is looking for an adventure. Andrew is a young doctor seeking to save lives. Ken is fresh from Harvard Law and full of idealism.

The UN organizes Cambodia's first democratic elections, and Phnom Penh is the scene of wild parties, as the international community celebrates the end of the Cold War. There the three become friends for life.

Propelled by success in Cambodia, the US and UN sponsor peacekeeping missions to Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia. Ken and Heidi find themselves together in Somalia. They dance on their rooftop to Jimi Hendrix while helicopters buzz overhead so close they feel the heat of the exhaust. "You're listening to 99.9 FM Mogadishu?Rockin' the Dish," American Armed Forces Radio announces, "Keep your head down and the volume up."

But after the infamous Black Hawk Down incident when eighteen US Army Rangers were killed in a firefight with Somali militias, a chain reaction of violence breaks loose. As the trio's missions unravel, their bond tightens. Andrew is sent to Haiti, to Bosnia, and then Rwanda where he finds Ken, investigating the mass grave of genocide. Heidi's journey is unforgettable?a rare woman in a man's world of conflict and war.

The three friends' voices mingle to paint an indelible picture?suffused with tenderness and unexpected humor?of life, love, and death in the world's most dangerous places. By day they struggle to bring order out of chaos; by night they use revelry, sex, each other?desperate measures from faith to flesh and everything in between?to find a human connection in a terrifying world. Graphic, lyrical, and astonishingly urgent, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures is a celebration of the strength of the human spirit?and of the gritty power of friendship to keep you alive.

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