Everyone is invited to join the Social Wave Book Club as we celebrate Silicon Valley Reads 2013 by discussing The Long Walk: A Story of War & the Life That Follows by Brian Castner.

Brian Castner served 3 tours of duty in the Middle East, 2 of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team would venture forth to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices, or picking up the pieces they left behind. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with an unshakable feeling of fear, confusion, and survivor's guilt that he terms The Crazy.

Castner's thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror, excitement, and camaraderie of combat and the lonely battle against the enemy within.