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Have Snakes, Need Birds
Have Snakes, Need Birds
Have Snakes, Need Birds
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Sergeant John Mackenzie is on his third deployment to Iraq at the height of combat operations. His overriding goal: get his soldiers home safely. That mission is difficult enough when every day is a fight against snipers, roadside bombs, or just plain old boredom-it becomes impossible when John accidentally awakens two a

LanguageEnglish
PublisherKoehler Books
Release dateSep 30, 2020
ISBN9781646631742
Have Snakes, Need Birds
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Travis Klempan

Travis Klempan is the author of the novel, Have Snakes, Need Birds, which received the Gold Medal for Wartime Fiction from Independent Publisher Magazine and was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Line of Advance, O Dark Thirty, Proximity, Flyway Journal, and Bombay Gin, among other outlets. Travis is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the University of Colorado Law School. He lives near Red Rocks with his wife, son, and animals.

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