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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...
- Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
What the critics say
"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)