A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is a searching, poignant memoir of love and loss, in which two seemingly mismatched people, a career soldier fiercely devoted to his men and a big-city journalist, find each other – only to be parted by a tragedy in Baghdad.
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, First Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, Fourth Infantry Division, began to write what would become a 200-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from Iraq. King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was six months old.
A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is a father’s letter to the son he will never see – wrenching accounts of losing men in battle mixed with advice on everything from how to withstand disappointment to how to behave on a date. It is also a mother’s search for answers. Why did King volunteer for the mission that killed him? Why was it such a struggle to accept this man she deeply loved as he was?
Optioned for film by Denzel Washington and Columbia Pictures, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is a tender introduction, a loving good-bye, a reporter’s inquiry into her soldier’s life and a heartrending reminder of the human cost of war.
