War Fix

    (NBM, 2006)
™ and © David Axe & Steven Olexa

What makes War-Fix so compelling is what makes it so scary: the protagonist’s addiction to war. This sort of condition has received attention in mainstream press before, but one such addict, journalist David Axe, writes this autobiography. This is a guy who voluntarily has gone to Iraq six times since the U.S. invasion in March 2003, five times embedded with U.S. or British troops—all because he seems to need the rush of wartime violence and risk.

What drives a person to such an attitude? The book doesn’t clearly answer that question, but it does illustrate (courtesy of wonderful art by Steven Olexa) how a person like this thinks and, even more tragically, what a person is willing to sacrifice to satiate the urge.

This is not a pro- or anti-war story. It is simply a look through the eyes of an individual who finds himself happiest when he’s in the midst of flying bullets, explosions, ever-present life-threatening danger, and people’s lives being shattered by the hell of war.

I read this book more than once, and I didn’t come out of it able to empathize with Axe, but I did see him as a real person who is aware of and trying to handle his constant urge for a war fix.

— Ray Sidman
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