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1) Rogue forces
Author
Series
McLanahan volume 15
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 321 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kevin Martindale and Patrick McLanahan take an assignment in northern Iraq during the withdrawal of U.S. troops and find themselves a solitary force in an unexpected clash between Kurdish nationalists and Turkish invaders.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
3) Cherry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq....
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly reclusive, suspicious, and aggressive, until he finds himself the prime suspect in a series of recent killings.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
xii, 431 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.