Wars is an evocative triptych of stories from the otherworldly side of warfare in the 1980s. "The Dead City" is set in Afghanistan in 1985. A company of Soviet soldiers find themselves confronting an ancient power more powerful than any insurgent force. "Punyayama " revisits Great Britian's short battle for the Falklands Islands, off the coast of Argentina in 1982. A young lieutenant discovers that there are greater evils than the enemy on the field of battle. "The Intruder" follows the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. A sergeant's treachery against a colleague comes back to haunt him face to face, and he's left to ponder the consequences of his actions for all time.

• TPB
  8/17/2020