Imagine you
have finally landed your dream job. You are newly minted a young and hungry Hollywood Agent
working your way up the Hollywood food chain and you’ve even begun to represent
clients including an Emmy winner, an Oscar winner and a Pulitzer prize winner.
You are in hot with studios, producers, running game, scouting talent, movie
premieres, the sky’s the limit! Then it happens, you get called to action
– the Army. And thus, you have to leave it all behind to go fight in a
war.
That’s exactly what happened to George Mannix. This memoir follows his real-life journey going from the perches of a literary and talent agency in Los Angeles where he was a young Hollywood Agent making film deals, to being on the recent frontlines of combat in Baghdad as a Soldier in the U.S. Army. Then eventually finding love, marriage and parenthood. It’s a fascinating TRUE story told from George’s POV. His own experience and accounts, showing not just the extreme differences in both places, but also discovering some surprising similarities in the two very different worlds as well.
That’s exactly what happened to George Mannix. This memoir follows his real-life journey going from the perches of a literary and talent agency in Los Angeles where he was a young Hollywood Agent making film deals, to being on the recent frontlines of combat in Baghdad as a Soldier in the U.S. Army. Then eventually finding love, marriage and parenthood. It’s a fascinating TRUE story told from George’s POV. His own experience and accounts, showing not just the extreme differences in both places, but also discovering some surprising similarities in the two very different worlds as well.