However, I did take part in free-fire zones; I did take part in harassment interdiction fire.
Like the characters in the novel's other time zones, I wanted his narrative to use period speech.
"Now that I can break down target lists by time zones, I get more calls done in a day," he said.
Nick and Ben were far more adept at this than I was, largely from having spent time reporting in conflict zones, I suppose.
As Catrambone saw it, he was already in the business of saving lives in conflict zones: "I rescue people for money in my other job," he told me.
Anyway, because of that, and a longstanding but weakly enforced opposition to corporate enterprise zones, I never went back to that Best Buy.
Having spent time in Bosnia, Congo and other war zones, I have witnessed firsthand how healing from rape becomes possible only when women reclaim agency over their bodies and their futures.
When I investigated whether mothers pregnant with multiples might be allowed to park in handicapped zones, I found a spring of Web hatred: "The fat [expletive] should walk!" In those last weeks, I frightened people.
When I see images of Americans in the war zones, I think of my son and his friends, many of whom I have come to know and deeply respect.
My day usually consists of an hour or two in the morning checking the previous nights' emails and correspondence; with clients in three time zones, I have to allow for the need to catch up properly.
Leaning my skis against the thick walls of the bomb shelter before I entered its sinister decontamination zones, I mused that, 25 years ago, this was one of the safest places to be in Germany.
