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The Western Contingent Format:Paperback and a compulsive talker whoBy Jesse Anderson ISBN: 9781628972825 Publication Date: 07 06 2021 Andersons debut novel introduces readers to a writer of lucid, hallucinatory prose worthy of comparison with Roberto Bolao, Cormac McCarthy, and Jos Saramago. Loosely based on events that occurred during the Chinese Civil War, The Western Contingent follows a group of forty eight young men who unexpectedly find themselves recruited for a mysterious mission deemed vital to their