Twenty-five-year-old Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for <em>Newsweek</em> . Armed with the tools of a twenty-first-century reporter—cell phones, high-speed Internet, digital video cameras, drivers, guards, translators—he describes in startling detail the atmosphere, the violence, and the never-ending threats of bomb and mortar attacks. .<P>While on a break in New York, Hastings falls in love with Andi Parhamovich. Andi, twenty-eight and striving for a better world, follows Michael to Iraq with the National Democratic Institute, and readers see their war-zone romance—a carefully coordinated intimacy that nonetheless puts them in harm's way. Then Andi goes on a dangerous mission for her new employer that ends in catastrophe..<P>Unflinching and revelatory, <em>I Lost My Love in Baghdad</em> is “reminiscent of Michael Herr's <em>Dispatches</em> , possessing the same view of intimacy…a great war book” ( <em>Sydney Morning Herald</em> ). .