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    Babylon by Bus: Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...
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    Babylon by Bus: Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...
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    Babylon by Bus: Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...
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    Babylon by Bus: Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...

    Written by Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann and Donovan Webster

    Narrated by Jeremy Davidson

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The true story of two young American men who came to Baghdad without a plan, were recruited into an occupation that knew the feeling, and witnessed enough corruption, confusion, and brutality to fill the pages of a very good book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 3, 2006
    ISBN9781429508889
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    Babylon by Bus: Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...
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    Ray LeMoine

    Ray LeMoine dropped out of Northeastern University in 1999 and spent the next five years running the "Yankees Suck" T-shirt operation outside Fenway Park. As CEO, he was based everywhere from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Spain's Basque region to Revere, Massachusetts. In early 2004, he traveled to Baghdad with Jeff Neumann to help spread freedom and democracy. He lives in New York. Jeff Neumann worked as a volunteer NGO coordinator for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad in early 2004 after several failed attempts at becoming a professional poker player. He currently resides in New York City and continues to travel as much as possible while trying to stay out of third-world jails. Donovan Webster is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He is currently employed as spiritual adviser and bail bondsman for Jeff Neumann and Ray LeMoine.

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    • 3/5
      The subtitle does a pretty good job of summarizing this book. Which is good, considering that it is a heck of a run-on sentence, and the longest subtitle I've ever seen. What it doesn't tell you is that this is a reasonably well-written and quickly readable book. Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann lay out their experiences without any hiding behind higher motives or artifice.The story of how they ended up in Iraq more-or-less on a whim and founded an aid distribution NGO is interesting on its own. But what really caught my attention was the accounting of all the other things they did and saw and the people the met. From the drugs and drinking of a lot of the non-military (and some of the military), their impression of the private security companies (steroid-abusing mercenaries looking for a fight), to their inside observations of the repeated missteps and failures of the CPA leading to the inevitable civil war.This isn't the big picture of the Iraq War. It is a lot of small snapshots from the lowliest part of the CPA, in and around the Green Zone for about 3 months at the start of 2004. Not a perspective that you'll find much of anywhere else.
    • 3/5
      This is a very interesting story of two friends who move to Iraq, pretty much on a whim. It is daring and adventurous.
    • 5/5
      The highly enteraining story of two young Americans who traveled to Iraq to find employment working for the Coalition Provisional Authority in the Green Zone. With no experience and virtually no interview, they were given jobs setting up Non-Governmental Organizations to provide relief and aid to the Iraqi people. This story provides the reader with a glimpse of the culture of war society of those involved in it. Highly recommended.