British journalist Thomas Benton is persuaded by ex-US soldier Arwood Hobbes, and supported by relief worker Marta Strom, to embark on what may be a fools' errand, as they try to atone for their failure to save a local girl over twenty years previously, after Operation Desert Storm. The Girl in Green explores the troubled landscape of the Middle East, and the West's foreign policy agenda, with wit, skill and insight. By the author of Norwegian by Night