Bill Carter - Fools Rush in: A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption

INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR FOOLS RUSH IN

CARTERS BOOK READS LIKE A NOVEL, evoking a lost city inhabited by angels, bandits, punks and adrenaline fiends. (He) reaches far beyond personal experience to find the story of a wounded city, and a war that pitted neighbor against neighbor in a nightmare of endless hatred.

Ginanne Brownell, NEWSWEEK

THIS LIVELY BOOK is like Good Morning, Vietnam crossed with a Conrad novel.

The London Times

TEW WRITERS HAVE TRAVELED A MORE REMARKABLE PATH than fisherman-humanitarian-filmmaker-author Bill Carter.

David Swanson, Rolling Stone

FOOLS RUSH IN IS AS ANGRY AND OUTRAGED AS IT

MUST BE, yet funnier and warmer than youd expect it to be. In besieged Sarajevo, physically and psychologically a long way from home, Carter finds unlikely kindred spirits: circus performers, disc jockeys, musicians, writers, artists, barstool philosophersand, at the other end of a satellite link, the biggest rockn'roll band in the world.

Andrew Mueller, journalist and author of
I WOULDNT START HERE: The 21st Century
and Where it All Went Wrong

SELT-JUSTITYING, YET NEVER SELL-GLORITYING, this memoir is simultaneously engaging and electrifying.

The Observer

CARTERS SELF-STYLED RELIEF MISSION OFFERS A RARE WALKING TOUR inside a war that was famously hard to parse while it was occurring, and remains tragically unexamined by much of the world in its aftermath

Jim Breuthaupt, Bomb

CARTER HAS THE COURAGE TO REVEAL THINGS AS HE SEES THEM. He has lived on the edge and returns here to tell what he saw.

Frank Shouldice, The Irish Independent

BILL CARTER IS MORE THAN A DIGITAL AGE HUCK FINN. He is not merely writing here, he is singing, as if his life depended upon it. And you get the very real sense that it does. This drama is an honest, wry, immensely humane look at coming of age at the edge of a bomb crater.

Doug Stanton, author of IN HARMS WAY

FIERCELY INTELLIGENT It is a deeply felt emotional reaction to the horror and the humanity that Bill Carter would witness Told with the passion of one who came to identify himself with the tragedy of Bosnia, not as an observer

The Guardian

THIS IS A BOOK WITH MIRACULOUS TWISTS, where the absolute desperation touches the cosmic loneliness of people from Sarajevo during the war. Bill Carter was one of them, he was proud of it but thats not everything: He knows how to tell it in the very best way.

DANI Magazine, Sarajevo

IN RECOUNTING AN EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN STORY, it simmers with a quiet rage and a remarkable self awareness.

Irish Times

CARTERS BOOK DESERVES A WIDER AUDIENCE: his shell-shocked tales of life in the besieged city paint a powerful picture of ordinary people trying to survive in hell.

Ink

ITS BEEN HELD THAT THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN ORIGINAL STORIES, most of them cogged from the Greek: basic templates that have provided endless variations from Homer to Hemingway. To this lineage we can add Bill Carters book, FOOLS RUSH IN.

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Fools Rush In

where angels fear to tread

Copyright 2005 and 2009 Bill Carter
Introduction: Copyright 2009 Charles Bowden

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Carter, Bill
Fools rush in: a true story of war and redemption/Bill Carter

p.cm
ISBN: 9780982433294

1. Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina)HistorySiege, 1992-1996personal narratives, American. 2. Carter, Bill. 3. AmericansBosnia and HercegovinaSarajevo I.Title

Second Edition

Jacket photo: Bill Carter
Author photo: Sarah Neyhart
Cover design: Anton Markous and Darci Slaten
Interior book design: Darci Slaten
Map design: Neil Gower

For my parents,
Susan and John Lalaguna