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In an audio-only ambush of his own, Tom Wolfe takes on and takes off on investigative reporting, prime-time-TV-style a la "Dateline," with a dash of Barbara WaWa. Don't look for any good guys in "Ambush at Fort Bragg," his new novella, read with an assortment of authentic accents and great style by Edward Norton -- you won't find them. Rather (not Dan, of course), you'll find a devastatingly described bunch of late-twentieth-century media types, enveloped in their own hype and their ambushees, three, young homophobic Army Rangers, enveloped in their own testosterone. TV producer, Irv Durtcher, short and fat, the self-styled "Satan of sting," and "true artist of the modern world," with a sense of social justice to boot; "her smugness," the slightly over-the-hill, galactically popular, blonde bombshell super-anchor; Jimmy, Ziggy and Flory, the twanging, Fort Bragg gay-bashers and an array of other sleazoids, in positions high and low, can claim seats just below the "masters of the universe" in the Tom Wolfe pantheon of novel notables.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. Don't miss her audio book reviews on CNN's "Sunday Morning."
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