The January 22, 2015, episode of
American Heroes Radio features a conversation with former Green Beret Paul Avallone, the author of Tattoo Zoo:
A Novel of the Afghan War.
Program Date: January 22, 2015
Program Time: 1500
hours, PACIFIC
Topic: Tattoo Zoo: A
Novel of the Afghan War.
Listen Live: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2015/01/22/tattoo-zoo-a-novel-of-the-afghan-war
About the Guest
Paul Avallone, USA "spent
three-plus years in Afghanistan as a Green Beret then an embedded civilian
journalist." Paul Avallone is the author of Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the
Afghan War.
According to the book description
Tattoo Zoo "is a novel that could only have been written by a veteran of
more than three years in the Afghan War -- as a Green Beret then a civilian
embedded journalist. America's longest war is compressed into a charged forty-six
hours with the GIs of the Tattoo Zoo platoon trapped fighting a fierce Taliban
in a nowhere piece of picturesque real estate called Wajma Valley, as they are
left hung out to dry by a politically correct four-star command hell-bent on
prosecuting them for war crimes or just letting them die in place.
You will be taken into the heart
and soul of the American soldier -- from private to general. You will be with
the soldiers, you will be with the command, and you will be swept into the
Afghan War on a visceral level of extreme verisimilitude. If you've been in the war, you will recognize
and feel those hours and days and months, and you will want others to read this
to understand what you lived.
If you haven't been to the war and
only know Afghanistan from blips you've seen on TV news, Tattoo Zoo will put
you there, and you'll know it. No need
here to detail the characters, but you can count on remembering Wolfe and Doc
Eberly and Redcloud and St Claire and Dove and Finkle and Victoria Marshall and
a whole slew more. This is a big novel, and not meant for the casual reader
expecting some throw-away weekend-read thriller. There is nothing pretentious
or artificially artistic or overly intellectual about the language here; just
the opposite, the reading is easy. In fact, there's enough character and story
and conflict here that there's no need for false literary styling meant to
impress other writers and professors of hoity-toity MFA programs. Open it up,
give it a shot, and find again the deep pleasure of an epic war novel."
About the Watering Hole
The Watering Hole is police slang
for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and
life. Sometimes funny; sometimes
serious; but, always interesting.
About the Host
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster was a
sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department for 24 years. He retired in 2003 at the rank of
Lieutenant. He holds a bachelor’s from
the Union Institute and University in Criminal Justice Management and a
Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California State University,
Fullerton; and, has completed his doctoral course work. Raymond E. Foster has
been a part-time lecturer at California State University, Fullerton and Fresno;
and is currently a Criminal Justice Department chair, faculty advisor and
lecturer with the Union Institute and University. He has experience teaching upper division
courses in law enforcement, public policy, law enforcement technology and
leadership. Raymond is an experienced
author who has published numerous articles in a wide range of venues including
magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile Government, Airborne Law
Enforcement Magazine, and Police One. He
has appeared on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and
Europe as subject matter expert in technological applications in law
enforcement.
Listen from the Archive: http://www.hitechcj.com/americanheroesradio/tattoo_zoo.html
Program Contact Information
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD
(ret.), MPA
909.599.7530
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