Kirk Wallace Johnson went to Baghdad with the U.S. Agency for International Development, then he came home and spent the better part of a decade fighting on behalf of thousands of Iraqis who had become refugees as a result of their work alongside America during the war. Fly-fishing became his escape from the harrowing stress of these real-life realities. And that’s when he stumbled upon the tale that led him to write “The Feather Thief.”
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