Permanent Deadline — Mark Fritz

We live in a world of endlessly overlapping deadlines of our own creation, worrying about time wasted, time lost. We re-imagine memories of missed moments yet we lose sight of the ultimate deadline: when our time is up. PERMANENT DEADLINE is a wildly entertaining yet unsettling war story about life on the clock. Seven people with conflicting agendas and shared deadlines collide spectacularly in the final days of the Cold War. They live and love and lie to each other in an alternative universe of frightening familiarity. Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Mark Fritz, who covered every significant global event since the fall of the Berlin Wall, upends accepted notions of piety and patriotism and exposes a media machine's clownishly inept coverage of a world unraveling. Fritz is the author of LOST ON EARTH: Nomads of the New World, winner of the Salon non-fiction award, of which judges noted: “Although Fritz's subject is cruel, his book is strangely delightful.” PERMANENT DEADLINE is, in spirit, a sequel to LOST ON EARTH. Beneath the brutally black comic take on real events, there nevertheless beats the heart of humanity.