# Life During Wartime

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- Book: [Life During Wartime](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-g-ballard/life-during-wartime) ([Life During Wartime.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-g-ballard/life-during-wartime.md))
- Authors: [J. G. Ballard](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-g-ballard), [Lucius Shepard](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucius-shepard)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-193-3
- Published: 2015-06-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn ... one of the finest science fiction writers of all time" - Science Fiction Chronicle " Seminal. Like a book on Vietnam, but science fiction. Amazing!" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars " The prose astounds. Lucius Shepard was a genius!" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive among rotting vegetation and his despairing, drug-pumped fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless, amoral war. During some well-earned R&R he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy. David now finds himself a pawn of secret, ruthless forces lusting for world domination, and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon.