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Rod Davis

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Award-winning author Rod Davis’s books include Corina’s Way, winner of the fiction prize in the inaugural PEN Southwest Book Awards for 2000-2005, and American Voudou: Journey into a Hidden World, selected as one of the “Exceptional Books of 1998” by Bookman Book Review Syndicate. A long-time journalist and magazine editor, he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.

 

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The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men: Human Bondage in the After-Market of War

Winner, International Impact Book Awards, Contemporary Fiction, June 2024

Finalist, military fiction, in the 7th annual American Fiction Awards, American Book Fest 2024

In 1970, Second Lieutenant Thomas Jefferson Hobbes, fresh out of college and ROTC, finds himself sent to South Korea instead of the expected Vietnam. His arrival at Kimpo Air Base turns his destiny from a war zone to another face of warfare, the destructive interactions between soldiers and camp followers, aka men and women, that are a part of conquest and occupation throughout history and around the world. Utterly unprepared, he follows trails and carves his own, his soul and sense of humanity falling to levels of hell that even Dante would find daunting.

A beautiful young Korean working girl, known only as Miss Kim, becomes Hobbes's partner and his guide into deception and danger. Pushing through his 13-month tour, he becomes a part of the thoughtless, predatory subculture that binds him to the love of his life, but at an impossible price.