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by Alexander Hopkin John Moses is a "soldier's soldier." He is a West Point graduate, completes the elite and demanding training of the Army Special Forces, and is assigned to fight the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq. The atrocities of war are more than John can emotionally handle, so the Army pulls him out of combat and reassigns him stateside. Unfortunately, John is not ready to go home. He leaves the base without permission and joins up with a couple that are backpacking across Europe and winds up in Amsterdam. John struggles with his "good soldier" persona as he becomes intimately involved in the drug and prostitution business of the Amsterdam Red Light District. It appears that John still has a sense of duty when he is called to help his country again. The reader will wonder if John is he really working for our side as a "mole" in the Dutch underground. In Time and Chance, Alexander Hopkins writes a compelling novel about the emotional scars of war. Using the Amsterdam Red Light District as the setting for most of the novel, Hopkins magnifies the "noir" nature of the plot and the troubled persona of John Moses. The ending of the novel is quite surprising and leaves the reader with several unanswered questions. Hopkins also includes three of his short stories in the publication all of which are well-written, but somewhat dark in tone. |
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Time and Chance and Selected Short Stories