Kent Anderson is a U.S. Special Forces veteran who served in Vietnam and a former police officer in Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. With an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana, he has taught college-level English and written screenplays. His two other novels, Night Dogs and Green Sun, both feature Hanson. Anderson may be the only person in U.S. history to have won two NEA grants for creative writing as well as two Bronze Stars. He lives in New Mexico
"An ending unlike anything else in war literature ... a nihilist
ordeal of such power that comedy and tragedy flow into one another,
and you can only watch numbly as your values float away facedown in
the river."--Los Angeles Review of Books
"Fiction that wounds and stings.... Sympathy for the Devil is a
wonderful achievement, written fluently andperceptively, and with
the kind of unsparing intelligence that is rooted in careful
observation.... Kent Anderson has outwritten just about everybody
who preceded him in trying to make fictional sense out of the
war."--Peter Straub, Washington Post
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