TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eggers, Dave
TI  - The parade
SN  - 9780241394496
PY  - 2019///
CY  - UK
PB  - Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
KW  - Government contractors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Corruption
KW  - Civil War
KW  - Roads
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
N2  - Two Western men are sent to work far away from home, tasked with paving a road the length of a country. The country is dangerous and largely lawless, only just recovering from a devastating civil war, and the road will unite north and south. The road is Progress. The road is Hope. And, when it is completed, a great parade will march it end to end. The two men follow a route from the outer villages to the capital, operating their high-tech road-building machine and bickering along the way. One man is highly experienced, reliable, focused, pausing only to sleep and eat the company-issued food. The other is chaotic, curious, forever joking with locals and breaking protocol. But when illness, corruption, and theft compromise their mission, the pair discover danger far greater than anything they had anticipated
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