<DIV><DIV><B><DIV><I>Tree of Smoke</I> is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.</DIV><P>One of the <I>New York Times</I> 10 Best Books of the Year<BR></B><B><BR><BR></B>Named a Best Book of the Year by <I>Time</I>, <I>The Washington Post</I>, <I>The Boston Globe</I>, <I>Chicago</I><I> Tribune</I>, <I>San Francisco</I><I> Chronicle</I>, Amazon.com, <I>Salon</I>, <I>Slate</I>, The National Book Critics Circle, <I>The Christian Science Monitor. . . .<BR></I><BR><I>Tree of Smoke </I>is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Pschological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in <I>The New York Times</I>, <I>Tree of Smoke</I> is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war."<BR><BR></P></DIV></DIV>