TY - BOOK AU - Campbell,Barney TI - Bring the rain SN - 9780718181260 (paperback) U1 - 823.92 23 KW - Soldiers KW - Conduct of life KW - Fiction KW - Afghan War, 2001- KW - War stories KW - lcgft N2 - Drawing on firsthand experience of combat, "Bring the Rain" is a searingly powerful novel in the bestselling tradition of "Matterhorn". Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets of Belfast. With the war in Afghanistan at its savage peak, Tom is despatched from home in the dead of an anonymous September night, a blood tribute leaving without fanfare. Full of eagerness, but wracked by self-doubt, he must discover who he is and what he is capable of. But as the bonds with his comrades grow, home - and the loved ones left behind - seem ever more remote from the surreal violence and exhilaration of war ER -