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Ever since she lost her husband in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983, Foreign Service Officer Angela Morgan has not handled stress—or living—very well. After a string of disastrous relationships and years of self-medication to suppress her Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, her personal and professional lives have ground to a standstill. Forced to choose between early retirement and an assignment to an isolated British Army compound in northern Afghanistan where she will be the only