The Men Who Stare at Goats

Zusatztext Funny and gravely serious, what emerges is a world shrouded in secrecy, mystery and wackiness, where Warrior Monks and psychic spies battle it out for military thinking. Mind-blowing stuff. Informationen zum Autor Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed , The Psychopath Test, Lost at Sea, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Them: Adventures with Extremists . His acclaimed podcasts include Things Fell Apart and The Butterfly Effect , and he co-wrote the screenplays for the movies Okja and Frank . He lives in New York. Klappentext In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known military practice - and indeed the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting George Bush's War on Terror. Often funny, sometimes chilling and always thought-provoking, journalist Jon Ronson's Sunday Times bestseller The Men Who Stare at Goats is a story so unbelievable it has to be true. The Sunday Times number one bestseller that inspired the major motion picture. Zusammenfassung The Sunday Times number one bestseller that inspired the major motion picture.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Ronson, Ronson Jon
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.01.2012
• EAN: 9780330375481
• ISBN: 978-0-330-37548-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); HUMOR / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, HISTORY / Military / United States, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Humour, Reportage & collected journalism, Conspiracy Theories, Reportage, journalism or collected columns