Two weeks after Michael Hastings's explosive article in Rolling Stone led to the sacking of General Stanley McChrystal, the journalist has landed a book deal for "an unprecedented behind-the-scenes account of America's longest war".
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Hastings's piece, The Runaway General, showed McChrystal criticising Barack Obama's administration and saying that he felt betrayed by the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry. An adviser to McChrystal told Hastings that the general was disappointed after his first meeting with Obama, who "clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was". Following the article's publication, McChrystal was summoned to Washington and sacked from his post as commander of all Nato-led forces in Afghanistan on 23 June.
The US publisher Little, Brown has acquired an untitled book by the journalist, which it said would "offer an unfiltered look at the war, and the soldiers, diplomats and politicians who are waging it", elucidating "as never before our deeply troubling war in vivid, unforgettable detail".
No publication date has yet been set for the book. Hastings is also the author of the memoir I Lost My Love in Baghdad, in which he relates the tragedy which ensued when he went to cover the war in Iraq accompanied by his girlfriend. |