Discharge: A Veteran's Lessons on Outrunning the Pentagon, Moving Stolen Military Art, and Guzzling Civilian Freedom

A soldier becomes a civilian again in this knockout inversion of the popular military memoir.

"I don't laugh out loud much anymore... Iraq and Afghanistan stole that from me. However, reading the adventures of you and the Band-Aid Man has caused me to laugh out loud repeatedly, so thanks for giving that back to me."
-Reaction from a Service Member reading DISCHARGE

After completing his full tour, the son of six generations of career battlefield heroes realizes he does not share their destiny and decides to do something none of his ancestors ever tried -- become a civilian. Unfortunately, the Army has other plans. Pressed by the Pentagon to prove he really was discharged, Holbrook recalls his release from the Army in an anything-can-happen-and-does road trip with a former trench buddy, The Band-Aid Man. The Catch-22 absurdity of Holbrook's battles with the Army brass (who are never wrong) threaten to do him in even before he and his buddy find themselves caught up in the police manhunt for the priceless military painting, "Reveille," whose disappearance captured recent headlines.

Paced with a breathless immediacy that keeps the pages turning, DISCHARGE is a take-no-prisoners dispatch of underdog spirit in the face of overwhelming odds. And it all really happened.