Vulture

"This timely tragi-comic satire tears through the guts of the war news industry." * Country & Town House *
"Brave, funny and beautifully written.” * Martin McDonagh, writer and director *
“In a debut redolent of Graham Greene, Phoebe Greenwood brings to life — in all their cynicism and all their humanity — the bullying, bragging, brilliant characters we rely on to bring us the news.” * Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Sontag: Her Life and Work *
“There is much in this book that will be unsettlingly familiar to those who haunt the world’s frontlines as witnesses, addicts, and driven personalities. What is strikingly different is Phoebe Greenwood’s voice. This is a novel of honesty, humour and sadness told with great verve.”  * Fergal Keane, author of The Madness *
“Razor sharp and poignantly funny, Vulture is a remarkable debut. Greenwood writes with rage, wit and deep empathy, exposing the hypocrisies of the war media complex and making us confront our own complicity as readers in the process." * Ammar Kalia, author of A Person Is A Prayer *
"Vulture is the Scoop of our age - an absurdist tale of western media cynicism exposed by the unending horror of Gaza. Greenwood is a natural born writer and in Sara Byrne, she has created an antiheroine narrator whose view of the world is so darkly acerbic and sharply observed that, even as Sara appals us more with every turned page, we cannot bear to leave her side for a moment." * Julian Borger, author of I Seek a Kind Person *
“Vulture is so sharp and funny, and Phoebe Greenwood writes with such intelligence, such a flair for character and such an eye for the details of life in a war zone, that as you barrel forward you at first don’t notice just how much sting there is to this book, and then you’re left at the end, stunned and amazed. A superb novel on reporting and war.” * Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment *
"Martha Gelhorn meets Martin Amis." * Michael Hodges, author of AK47: A History of the People’s Gun *
“A powerful and gripping tale that is brave and brilliant. Greenwood explodes the romanticism of the foreign war correspondent with a sharp, satirical intelligence that is funny, moving and unforgettable.” * Cosmo Landesman, journalist *
“A captivating and explosively comic first novel – Joseph Heller's extracurricular hijinks collide with Graham Greene's toxic innocence.” * Joel Whitney, author of Flights: Radicals on the Run *
"Phoebe Greenwood brings all her years of distinction as a foreign correspondent and mashes them into a dark comedy worthy of Jesse Armstrong and Armando Iannucci.” * Bidisha Mamata, author of Asylum & Exile *
"Imagine Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag as a war correspondent in Gaza and you'd get Sara, the cynical and raunchy antiheroine of Phoebe Greenwood's Vulture... a daring dark comedy." * NPR *
"Blistering.... Greenwood captures the chaos of the conflict, the terror of living under constant bombardment, and the uglier aspects of war journalism." * The Observer *
“Vulture is a dark satire with real claws.” * The Independent *
"Fleabag goes to Gaza: a timely satire of war reporters.....Witty and sharply drawn." * The Sunday Times *
“A satirical new novel, Vulture offers an inside look into the life of journalists on the frontline.” * Hugo Rifkind, Times Radio *
"Astute and darkly humorous debut....Vulture is a caustic study of what it means to report from a conflict, and particularly relevant to the current moment."    * The Guardian *
“Sobering, blackly humorous and acutely observed.” * London Evening Standard *
“Phoebe Greenwood’s debut novel is both a commentary on the ethics of war reporting and a satirical portrayal of the news industry….To intercut horror with humour is a tough brief, but Greenwood manages it without trivialising her subject.” * The Spectator *
"Exceptional." * Strong Words *
“Dr. Strangelove,” “Catch-22,” and “MASH” collide in British journalist Phoebe Greenwood’s blistering debut novel, “Vulture,” a darkly comic, searing satire grounded in historic politics, suffused with incipient journalism and imbued with self-aggrandizement." * LA Times *
"A gritty, superbly written and important story about war reporting that gets right to the heart of the conflict: Vulture is an outstanding debut." * Buzz Magazine *
First person piece: "My years reporting on Gaza broke me down, Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged?" * The Guardian *
"Yellowface for journalism! I tore through this dark satire of war reporting told by an unlikeable narrator, desperate for a big story in the 2010s Gaza war. Scoop for the 21st century." * Tom Rowley, Backstory Bookshop *
"Greenwood, herself a former Jerusalem-based reporter, gives Sara just the right amount of cockiness and careless resolve to make her ambitions plausible, and despite keeping the focus on an outsider who’s at once cynical and naive, the novel provides an unflinching view of the conflict’s human toll. This striking portrait of hubris will keep readers glued to the page." * Publishers Weekly *
"Greenwood, a former war correspondent, skewers the news industry in her debut novel." * The New York Times *
"Highly reminiscent of Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's canonical satire... Vulture goes to much darker places." * Washington Post *
“Set to release in August, Greenwood’s debut has already been praised by early reviewers for its tinges of dark humor, brutally open writing, and satirical approach to war journalism.” * Huffington Post *
“Set on a beach in Gaza in 2012, this dark and tragic satire examines the media’s complicity in :gestures at world:” * LitHub *
"Though it’s set amid another Gaza conflict, Vulture is less about the war than it is about foreign opportunism and interference." * Foreword Reviews *