Just as Burnt Shadows is alert to those fragile human connections so easily shattered by the raucous insistence of group and national affiliations, so, too, it represents the confluence of economic and military globalization in its depiction of the operations of the private contractor Arkwright and Glenn. Harry and Raza end up working for this company, which runs a camp in Afghanistan serving U.S. military needs.

DEFINE: Arkwright and Glenn exemplifies the private military contractor as the meeting point of economic and military globalization.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 424