by Sarah M. Jackson (Author)
"The Devil Dealt the Cards" is an emotionally engaging series of intimate stories derived from months of living among the natives on a small Afghan Army post called Gamberi Garrison. Captain Jackson, a female logistics officer, and her team find themselves tasked with training Afghanistan's greenest soldiers, while simultaneously living on a violent crossroads near the Pakistan border. Her personal recollections vividly portray the excitement, frustration, and danger of combined action in Afghanistan, all while covering nearly every dramatic theme imaginable. This heartwarming account illustrates how one small band of hardworking Americans, aided by their Afghan counterparts, transformed a neighborhood and forged bonds of steel between people of two opposite cultures.