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Wounded Warriors

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True stories of obstacles, adversity and stubborn transcendence—including an intimate look at an extraordinary barracks of wounded Iraq War veterans at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Wounded Warriors First Edition

Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell prided himself on being a hard-core Marine—a patriotic leader on his sixth deployment overseas. Then his brain was shredded with mortar shrapnel. Meet Maxwell and the rest of the Devil Dogs at the Wounded Warriors Barracks he founded. From day one, the Marine Corps trained them to be lean, mean, killing machines. But what happens after the machine is broken? A report on the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Other stories in Wounded Warriors depict life inside an LA crack gang, ex-pat Vietnam War veterans in Thailand, a 650 pound man, teenage pit-bull fighters in the Philadelphia barrio, a round-the-world-hunt for the legendary actor Marlon Brando, and five days in Las Vegas with basketball anti-hero Kobe Bryant and his wife– all of it captured stylishly by the writer who has been called “the beat poet of American journalism.”

Mike SagerMike Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter. He’s been called “the Beat poet of American journalism.” For more than forty years he has worked as a writer for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire.

News

  • NOW AVAILABLE: Vetville: True Stories of the US Marines
    2019-09-19
  • Hear Mike Sager interviewed about the death of the Godfather of The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe.
    2018-05-28
  • NOW AVAILABLE: The Second Edition of the LA Times Bestselling REVENGE OF THE DONUT BOYS, by MIKE SAGER.
    2018-04-24
  • Mike Sager talks Creation, Suspending Disbelief, and Preaching Beyond the Choir on the CREATIVE NONFICTION PODCAST with Brendan O'Meara.
    2018-04-24
  • Now Available: The Lonely Hedonist: True Stories of Sex, Drugs, Dinosaurs and Peter Dinklage.
    2017-08-29
  • Now Available from Byliner/Vook: STONED AGAIN: THE HIGH TIMES AND STRANGE LIFE OF A DRUGS CORRESPONDENT
    2015-05-04
  • Now available on Amazon in paper and eBook: 25th Anniversary Author’s cut of “THE DEVIL AND JOHN HOLMES”
    2014-12-15
  • HIGH TOLERANCE now available in paperback on Amazon and in eBook wherever they are sold.
    2013-05-16
  • Paperback Editions of NEXT WAVE and THE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT now available
    2012-12-18
  • Now Available: First Fall List from The Sager Group
    2012-10-16
  • Coming Soon from The Sager Group
    2012-08-01

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  • Tattoos & Tequila: The Vince Neil Story
  • Wounded Warriors
  • Deviant Behavior, A Novel
  • Revenge of the Donut Boys
  • Scary Monsters and Super Freaks
  • Next Wave: America’s New Generation Great Literary Journalists
  • The Someone You’re Not
  • High Tolerance, A Novel
  • The Devil and John Holmes
  • Stoned Again
  • The Lonely Hedonist

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