The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya potx

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations,

places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination

or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,

events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

All rights reserved. 

Published in the United States by Hogarth, 

an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, 

a division of Random House, Inc., New York. 

www.crownpublishing.com

Hogarth is a trademark of the Random House

Group Limited, and the H colophon is a trademark 

of Random House, Inc.

Permission credits appear on page 288.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Roy-Bhattacharya, Joydeep.

The watch : a novel / Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya.—1st ed.

p.  cm.

1. Afghan War, 2001—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9499.3.R596W38  2012

823'.914—dc23 2011037317

ISBN 978-0-307-95589-0 

eISBN 978-0-307-95590-6

Printed in the United States of America

Jacket design: Tal Goretsky 

Jacket images: (Chinook helicopter): © Pool/Reuters/Corbis; (U.S. Marines with the

Female Engagement Team): Lynsey Addario/VII; (Afghan shepherd girl): Reuters/

Arko Datta; (U.S. soldier): Reuters/Goran Tomasevic; (members of the security

detail for Eikenberry in front of Chinook helicopter): Reuters/Tim Wimborne

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