Babylon by Bus (book)

infobox Book |
name = Babylon By Bus


author = Ray Lemoine, Jeff Neumann (with Donovan Webster)
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
subject = Travel
genre = Non-Fiction
publisher = Penguin Books
release_date = 2006
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 311 pp
isbn = ISBN 1-59420-091-2 (hardcover)

Introduction

The true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling Yankees Suck T-Shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the occupation in jobs for which they lacked qualification and witnessed much that amazed and disturbed them.

The book is written in Ray's point of view.

Setting

The book starts out with Ray and Jeff at Fenway, a baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.A turn of events in the Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees game leaves them feeling down, and the two find themselves wanting to travel to somewhere they have never been before.

The book is then set in Post-War Iraq, which is occupied by the American military, and the CPA.