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Old Silk Road

Brandon Caro

Old Silk Road is a prescient, powerful novel of the Afghan war by someone who's been there. Norman “Doc” Rodgers suspects he won’t make it out of this one alive. He’s a young combat medic in Afghanistan, eager to avenge his father’s death in the World Trade Center, and make sense of a new world tha...

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The book was briefly referenced as Brendan Caro's recent fiction focusing on a medic serving in the Afghan war. The narrator mentioned it in passing without offering a detailed endorsement or critique. This mention highlighted the novel's subject matter but did not suggest a strong recommendation.

Episode: 484: Doppelgängers

The novel was referenced as Brendan Caro's recent fiction about a medic in the Afghan war.

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Brendan Caro has a novel, Old Silk Road, which tells the story of a medic in the Afghan war.

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