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War is hell. It's also big business. A civilian working in Southern Iraq under a false name, Sutler, for a Halliburton-like contractor (HOSCO) is told to disappear; he understands he's being scapegoated for embezzlement but has no idea of the scale. At a site where HOSCO's waste is burned with complete disregard for workers' health, Sutler arrives to begin planning a city that will never be built. A student's murder in Naples is told in multiple outsider viewpoints. And at the endgame, multiple sightings of Sutler confuse the embezzler's attempts to contain the damage from the theft.