Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A TRUE STORY FROM HELL ON EARTH Kenneth Cain, Heidi Pos

 Miramax, 2004. This Book is in Very Good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear. Price sticker to front of dust jacket. 308 pp. Summary: A new kind of war requires a new kind of war story. This scorching, devastatingly honest memoir is a first-of-its-kind confession of love, friendship, and betrayal of ideals from civilians who volunteered to be on the front lines.In the early 1990s, three young people attracted to UN peacekeeping for very different reasons cross paths in Cambodia. Heidi, a new York social worker on the run from a marriage gone bust, is looking for an adventure. Andrew is a young doctor seeking to save lives. Ken is fresh from Harvard Law and full of idealism.The UN organizes Cambodias first democratic elections, and Phnom Penh is the scene of wild parties, as the international community celebrates the end of the Cold War. There the three become friends for life.Propelled by success in Cambodia, the US and UN sponsor peacekeeping missions to Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia. Ken and Heidi find themselves together in Somalia. They dance on their rooftop to Jimi Hendrix while helicopters buzz overhead so close they feel the heat of the exhaust. "Youre listening to 99.9 FM Mogadishu Rockin the Dish," American Armed Forces Radio announces, "Keep your head down and the volume up."But after the infamous Black Hawk Down incident when eighteen US Army Rangers were killed in a firefight with Somali militias, a chain reaction of violence breaks loose. As the trios missions unravel, their bond tightens. Andrew is sent to Haiti, to Bosnia, and then Rwanda where he finds Ken, investigating the mass grave of genocide. Heidis journey is unforgettablea rare woman in a mans world of conflict and war.The three friends voices mingle to paint an indelible picturesuffused with tenderness and unexpected humorof life, love, and death in the worlds most dangerous places. By day they struggle to bring order out of chaos; by night they use revelry, sex, each otherdesperate measures from faith to flesh and everything in betweento find a human connection in a terrifying world. Graphic, lyrical, and astonishingly urgent, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures is a celebration of the strength of the human spirit and of the gritty power of friendship to keep you alive