My great-grandmother won't stand for this nonsense, Darcy said. Neither am I. We're sitting here talking about enemies we don't know who they are and friends we're not sure who they are. / Our job, said Pendleton, is to kill whoever gets in our way and let God make the distinction. / I turned my head to look at him, he wasn't smiling. He meant what he said.

The code name: Operation Iraqi Liberation. For young soldiers in the American army, it has only one name: War. The soldiers in Civil Affairs, tasked with winning over the people and establishing peace, are not yet aware of the casualties that will be suffered or witnessed in the process of achieving this defined victory. First-person accounts, question marks flashing in bewildered minds, the face and smell of death, the fearful waiting, all come to life in letters. They are confused. Even the enemy is not clear. What about our friends, is it clear who they are?

Walter Dean Myers, who has been selected as a Youth Literature Ambassador, looks at a contemporary war through the eyes of the young people involved in it, from zero altitude. Canavar, the author's first novel published in Turkish, is also an ON8 book.