"Welcome to the multifaceted world of David Boccaccio, the eccentric Italian-American. Meet him in The American Translator: From San Francisco to Battlefields in Iraq. He is always on the run, always drifting away from his home in San Francisco on endless journeys all over the continents, mesmerized as ever by the enticing works of art, different cultures, and the charm of translation. At last, he is driven by his curiosity to join the American army in Iraq as a translator. The story flares up. In Iraq, he is held back by a series of mysterious incidents, facing one enigma after another. Eminent dangers of all kinds are lurking, and he passes from one into another. Would he unlock the puzzles of his existence and fate? Would he survive? Would he return to his burdened wife and ill mother still waiting for him? What would happen to his family and the people he knows in the USA, Iraq, and the Middle East?"