Combat Camera [Paperback]

Andrew Somerset (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2011

You'd like to believe you're in some tale of sin and redemption. I guess we all like to think we're walking through some grand, redemptive story. Well, we're all going to end up disappointed. Disappointment is one of the two fates that we all must eventually meet.

When former Pulitzer Prize–winning combat photographer Lucas Zane washes up drunk, broken, and hallucinatory after covering the worst global conflagrations of the past two decades, he takes a job with a low-budget pornographic impresario, getting accidentally involved with one of his actresses, Melissa. After a horrific assault, Zane hatches a plan to rescue Melissa, his career, and, he hopes, himself.Combat Camera is a restless, tragic, blackly funny, hypnotic novel.

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Combat Camera is one of the finest Canadian novels I have ever read (John Metcalfe).

"A confident, gifted writer" (The Toronto Star).

About the Author

Andrew Somerset: A. J. Somerset has been a soldier, a technical writer, a programmer, and a freelance photographer. His non-fiction has appeared in numerous outdoor magazines in Canada and the United States, and his articles have been translated into French and Japanese.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Biblioasis (April 5, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189723192X
• ISBN-13: 978-1897231920
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,644,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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After 20 years of photographing the worst of the world in wars all over the globe, Lucas Zane has just barely survived physically. The question is if he has survived mentally. Through some truly outstanding writing, A.J. Somerset had me turning the pages over two days of semi-constant reading to find out if he did. At the outset, Zane is doing pornographic photography to make ends meet and I wasn't quite as involved. But, when he took off across Canada to take a young stripper/porno actress home, I was hooked. There were many flashbacks to his days as a famous photographer and most gave a good idea of why he came to be where he was in the end. However, the memories of the Berlin Wall coming down were the exception and some of the best writing I've read about that period.