" Koerner''s gripping account of a little-known manhunt details
the brutality of jungle life while also illuminating larger issues
of race and prejudice during the war."
- Entertainment Weekly
" Remarkable . . . Koerner has done a great deal of digging into
obscure corners of dusty records and has managed to reconstruct a
tale well worth telling."
-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book Review
" A fascinating, untold story of the Second World War, an
incendiary social document, and a
內容簡介:
An epic saga of hubris , cruelty, and redemption, Now the
Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest
manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of
the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white
commanding officers, found solace in opium and marijuana. But on
one fateful day, Perry shot his unarmed white lieutenant in the
throes of an emotional collapse and fled into the jungle.
Brendan I. Koerner spent nearly five years chasing Perry''s ghost
to the most remote corners of India and Burma. Along the way, he
uncovered the forgotten story of the Ledo Road''s GIs, for whom Jim
Crow was as powerful an enemy as the Japanese-and for whom Herman
Perry, dubbed the jungle king, became an unlikely folk hero.