Dave was there for it all— there for the millennial latch-key children's plunge into bloody and politically-dubious combat, there for the US military's rocky evolution from Cold War Era to fighting the global war on terror, and there for his own turbulent, colorful transitions—all in the unforgiving jungles of hyper-masculinity. The '90s era of transgressive novels—American Psycho, Trainspotting, Fight Club—bored, bad boys who'd do anything to feel... what exactly? This chaotic premise has returned; now—and for the first time—in the form of a military memoire-exposé. An artistic nail-bomb: Spent Shell Casings encompasses just about every sordid and hilarious aspect of military life that could ever grace a page, all the while exposing the dark sides of adventure and the fighting man in ways that can no longer be ignored. Whether Iraq, a psych ward, or a barroom brawl, coming to terms with ones upbringing or drug abuse: join a Recon Marine at various points on the deadly map of war, meaning, and the American experience.