{"product_id":"officially-dead-edgard-bronce-ceray-9798258842824","title":"Officially Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe survived the war. He survived captivity. He didn't survive the paperwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn October 2012, Sergeant First Class James Chadwick was declared killed in action in Afghanistan. A body was recovered. A flag was folded. A check was cashed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years later, Chadwick walks into a Brooklyn law office and says five words that will destroy several lives, including his own: \"I wasn't killed. I was just reported that way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis wife has remarried. His life insurance - $400,000 - paid for a house in Connecticut. His death gratuity built a new life. His name is on a plaque at the VA. And every database in America - military, civilian, federal - says the same thing: DECEASED.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I don't have a form for a ghost,\" an ICE agent tells him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen attorney Sarah Darvell takes his case, she discovers that proving a man is alive may be harder than proving he's dead - because the government, the insurance company, and his own wife all have a financial interest in keeping him buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOFFICIALLY DEAD is a novel about identity, money, and the distance between the country a soldier fights for and the country that forgets him. Freely adapted from Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert and set in contemporary Brooklyn, it asks a question that is two hundred years old and has never been answered: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the dead come back - and the living don't want them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Phil Klay, Denis Johnson, and Richard Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edgard Bronce-Ceray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798258842824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Edgard Bronce-Ceray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172981219583,"sku":"9798258842824","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/officially-dead-edgard-bronce-ceray-9798258842824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}