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Michael J. Totten
Biography
Michael J. Totten is a foreign correspondent and foreign policy analyst who has reported from the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, City Journal, LA Weekly, The Jerusalem Post, Beirut's Daily Star, Reason, Azure, and the Australian edition of Newsweek. He is a contributing editor at City Journal and writes regularly for Commentary. He lives with his wife and two cats in Portland, Oregon, and is a former resident of Beirut. Visit his Web site at www.MichaelTotten.com.
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Books
Taken - A Novel
by Michael J. Totten
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 47,220.
Language:
English.
Published: April 6, 2013
by
Belmont Estate Books.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Prize-winning author and journalist Michael J. Totten’s debut novel features a fictional version of author and journalist Michael J. Totten who is taken from his home in the night by terrorists and hauled bound and gagged to a remote house in the wilderness. So begins a harrowing journey across three states with a ruthless band of killers and sadists.
Where the West Ends
by Michael J. Totten
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 84,600.
Language:
English.
Published: November 8, 2012
by
Belmont Estate Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Travel » Essays & Travelogues, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Former Soviet Republics
Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten returns with a masterpiece of travel writing and history in this journey through thirteen nations—all but two formerly communist—just beyond the edge of the West where few casual travelers venture.
Raid Night
by Michael J. Totten
Price:
Free!
Words: 3,050.
Language:
English.
Published: October 27, 2011
by
Belmont Estate Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Terrorism, Nonfiction » History » Middle East
Award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten embeds with U.S. Army soldiers in Baghdad during the Surge. They were sent out as bait to lure an insurgent commander, but instead find themselves stalked in the dark by a shadowy faceless militia.
On the Hunt in Baghdad
by Michael J. Totten
Price:
Free!
Words: 6,340.
Language:
English.
Published: October 27, 2011
by
Belmont Estate Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Terrorism, Nonfiction » History » Middle East
In this classic riveting dispatch from Iraq, award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten embeds with a unit of battle-hardened American soldiers as they hunt the elusive terrorist commander Haji Jawad—who wore a suicide vest wherever he went—in the fetid slums of Sadr City, Baghdad, at midnight.
In the Wake of the Surge
by Michael J. Totten
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 78,420.
Language:
English.
Published: October 26, 2011
by
Belmont Estate Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » Middle East
(5.00 from 1 review)
In the Wake of the Surge is a gripping first-person narrative that tells the story of the Kurds, the Arabs, and the Americans in Iraq during one of the most violent and wrenching periods in that country’s history by award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten, who visited Iraq seven times between 2005 and 2009.
In the Land of the Brother Leader
by Michael J. Totten
Price:
Free!
Words: 6,400.
Language:
English.
Published: October 21, 2011
by
Belmont Estate Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Africa, Nonfiction » History » Middle East
Libya's Moammar Qaddafi ran one of the most terrifying police states in the world before an armed rebel movement tore his repressive regime apart. In the Land of the Brother Leader is award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten's alterately humorous, creepy, and occasionally touching portrait of a brutalized nation just a few short years before the end of an era.