it is brain surgery.

I’m not a fan of gore. Which meant that I didn’t hit [buy] when I first heard about “No Place to Hide.” It’s the story of Dr. Lee Warren, a neurosurgeon from Texas who goes to Iraq in 2004-5 and operates in the tents that make up an Air Force hospital.

Because it’s a surgeon’s view, there is a lot of detail about surgery. Brain surgery. The result of damage from IEDs and mortars, accidents and attacks. Operations on troops and translators and terrorists.

Because I have what I call a sympathetic...