Tree Of Life (aka Accidental Exile) by Bruce W. Perry
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Overview: Jesse McCallister, a young Texan and Iraq War vet, escapes to Europe where he seeks a new direction and to heal psychic and physical wounds that he suffered in the Middle East. Wandering the streets of Ascona, Switzerland, he meets a beautiful Italian waitress named Sonya Altorelli.
Jesse has plenty of cash in his pocket from the sale of his parent’s Plano, Texas property, but he’s rootless, searching, and AWOL since the Army has called him back for another Iraq tour. Since the horrors of combat he encountered with a boyhood friend we gradually meet over the course of the book, Tyler Conroy, Jesse will have nothing more to do with war. The story is his farewell to arms.
On the shores of the lake, Sonya and Jesse fall in with expats led by a mysterious, generous young American tycoon named Michael Barnes. Barnes has a beautiful villa on the lake, an Aston Martin, and the brio and money to fuel their wine and absinthe parties. Jesse first meets Barnes on the ferry from Locarno; Jesse has lost his passport and Michael immediately offers to replace it, to not "leave a fellow American in the lurch."
He claims that "my father used to be the ambassador" to Switzerland–Jesse’s taken by the offer but not quite sure if Barnes is lying to him or not. He tempts Jesse to change his nationality, and the former soldier takes the bait.
The plot takes a perilous turn when, on a whim, Barnes funds an orphanage in the war-torn Ivory Coast. The outcasts leave for Africa, where a different fate awaits the hedonistic, yet seemingly doomed cast. Jesse cannot escape his fate as a warrior and a defender.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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