Goat Game: Thirteen Tales from the Afghan Frontier

MWSA Review

Goat Game takes you on a journey inside the frontier of Afghanistan. Wickliffe's "Goat Game" provides insight into the other side of war seldom revealed in such reality. The short stories will draw you into the book and propel you to the end in an almost search for knowledge missing from your history lessons.

Wickliffe's first hand accounts provide some understanding of the area which for the most part has been at war for hundreds of years.

Reviewed by: jim greenwald (2014)

Author's Summary

Walker's linked short stories describe the people and the chaos in the majestic, frightening region of the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier from the time of the Soviet invasion to the more recent U.S.-led war...The author is well aware of the trickery and chicanery in Afghanistan, but he has great respect for the people and the region...Military tactics play against the background of the thousands of years of history that have produced the Afghanistan of today.  - Kirkus Reviews

Lt. Col. Wickliffe "Wick" Walker (U.S. Army, retired) understands Afghanistan better than any Westerner has a right to. That's why he's channeled his experience into a fictional Special Forces Officer who strides through these 13 interconnected stories about modern Afghanistan like a low-profile Lawrence of Arabia. Mr. Walker has written stories that do justice to the complexity and history of the Afghan people while attempting to convey what it was like to be an American soldier in an absurd war. - Tony Norman / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette