From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
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Relocating to New York after finishing design school, Boyet Hernandez embarks on a promising career only to be wrongly accused of terrorist ties and locked up indefinitely in a tiny cell where he frantically prepares for a trial.
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The famous prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, became a source of unlikely inspiration for debut novelist Alex Gilvarry. His dark first novel, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, follows an aspiring fashion designer named Boy from his home in the Philippines to New York. When one of the people who fund his fashion label ends up implicating him in a terrorist plot, he becomes the first man arrested on U.S. soil to be captured and sent to Guantanamo Bay. As Gilvarry
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