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  • Babylon by Bus

  • Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...
  • Auteur(s): Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann
  • Narrateur(s): Jeremy Davidson
  • Durée: 7 h et 48 min

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Babylon by Bus

Auteur(s): Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann
Narrateur(s): Jeremy Davidson
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Jeff and Ray had "la vida": selling "Yankees Suck" T-shirts five months of the year in front of Fenway Park and spending the rest of the year traveling the world. Sure, they'd go back to college at some point, but for now, the future was comfortably on hold. But the play button got pushed for them after the Sox broke their hearts in the 2003 Series. In the painfully clear light of the morning after, they looked at each other and faced up to the fact that they were in danger of becoming losers. Sad cases. What to do, where to go if you're a young American man craving experience and wisdom in late 2003? If you're Jeff Neumann and Ray LeMoine, you go to Baghdad. And so they did.

You might not think these two scruffy, lovably clueless characters would have made attractive candidates for the U.S. government to run the desk in Baghdad's Coalition Provisional Authority that served as the interface between the CPA and the Iraqi people, fielding complaints and requests for aid from all over for a city of more than five million people. You might be naïve. But Ray and Jeff would prove to be dedicated and ingenious public servants, and they managed to do a great deal of good during their tenure in the face of staggering frauds and feuds. They also had their full share of the wild times that young people under immense stress in war zones have had from time immemorial, especially young people who return each night to a hermetically sealed safe zone flush with money and all the temptations, legal and illegal, that money attracts.

©2006 Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann (P)2006 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Innocents Abroad meets Fear and Loathing...inside the mess of post-liberation Iraq. (Jon Lee Anderson, author of The Fall of Baghdad)

"A report from the civilian front lines...funny, provocative, maddening, and largely riveting. (Chicago Sun-Times)

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