A near-miraculous, brilliant debut.George Saunders, Man Booker Prizewinning author of Lincoln in the Bardo In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war.Phil Klay, National Book Awardwinning author of Redeployment WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT WBINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION The eleven stories in Will Mackins mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kitWhenever possible he incorporated those notes into his journals. Years later, he used those journals to write this book. Together, the stories in Bring Out the Dog offer a remarkable portrait of the absurdity and poetry that define life in the most elite, clandestine circles of modern warfareIt is a world of intens