Book idea.
Young recently graduated engineer joins large engineering firm (naturally). Goes to Iraq with the building/engineering contractors. Rises in the company fast, but soon realises the inequity and false promises of a US restructuring( or entire rebuilding), for the contract work is all foriegn, the Iraqi are forced to stand aside while their country is reshaped, their(kind of) government is paying out billions, but the money flows only to foreign groups (not into the domestic economy). The people are having their lives and culture reshaped as they plunge deeper into to poverty with little political outlets. Our young hero realises this and becomes politically aware. Stay tuned for more. Would ya read it?
On a random midnight drive to Greenville, I saw a place called Beck academy. I think it was a school (or a prison). It was a giant square...made of unplastered brick. It had a central guard tower with some sort of observation deck (panopticon) and any windowless walls were somehow curved. Very much like a fortress of some sort. I wonder if they celebrate Bastille Day?
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