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'This is an extremely well written book, but not one that is just to be enjoyed - it is brutal and honest; shocking but authentic. There is no other like it.' - David A K Watters, Professor of Surgery, University of Melbourne

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Craig Jurisevic was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1965 and is married with three children. He is a cardiothoracic and trauma surgeon and has worked in many conflict zones. These include Israel and Gaza (1992-93), Albania and Kosovo in (1999), and with the Australian Army in East Timor (2006) and Afghanistan (2008). He is a member of the International Humanitarian Law Committee of the Australian Red Cross. Until recently, he worked as a surgeon in Adelaide and was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Robert Hillman is a Melbourne-based writer of fiction and biography. He grew up in rural Victoria but left Australia in his mid-teens to wander the world. His most recent biographies are The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif (2008) written with Najaf Mazari and My Life as a Traitor (2007) written in collaboration with Zarah Ghahramani and published internationally. My Life as a Traitor was a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Award. His memoir of his travels as a teenager, The Boy in the Green Suit, won the 2005 Australian National Biography Award and his novels include such highly-praised works as The Deepest Part of the Lake, The Hour of Disguise, and most recently, Joyful.

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