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Vulture

by Phoebe Greenwood

War reporting and the costs of ambition

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    NPR Best Book of 2025

    Named an NPR Best Book of 2025.

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War reporting and the costs of ambition

Set in Gaza in November 2012, Vulture places a young journalist inside the war-news industry she hopes will advance her career. Sara Byrne’s pursuit of a consequential story brings her into conflict with her fixer, Nasser, and toward Fadi, the youngest member of a powerful militant family. The hotel where international media work offers comfort and internet while local staff and their families face danger gives the novel a pointed contrast between the press’s working conditions and the realities around it. Framed as a darkly comic satire and coming-of-age story, the book examines ambition, Western media, and the industry’s relationship to the tragedies it covers.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction about journalism and the war-news industry.
  • Readers seeking a satirical coming-of-age story set amid conflict.
  • Readers interested in fiction set in Gaza and exploring media complicity.

Themes

War reporting and media complicityCareer ambitionUnequal exposure to conflictComing of age

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Book overview

NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025

The Economist Best Book of 2025
New York Times Editors' Choice


A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry.


Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and a tragi-comic coming-of-age novel.


In November 2012, Sara Byrne, an ambitious young journalist, is sent to Gaza to cover a war from The Beach. At the four-star hotel, staff work tirelessly to provide safety, comfort and generator-powered internet for the world's media, even as their own homes and families are under threat.


Sara is determined to use this war to launch her stalling career and win back her lover. So, when her fixer Nasser refuses to set up the dangerous story she thinks will make her name, she turns instead to Fadi, the youngest member of a powerful militant family. Driven by the demons of a damaging, entitled, childhood, Sara will stop at nothing to prove herself, even if it brings disaster upon those around her.


Greenwood's debut novel draws readers into the dark heart of western media, and with audacity and humour, questions its complicity in the tragedies that feed it.


"So sharp and funny... A superb novel on reporting and war."
--Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment


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