Military Fiction

Fawcett Crest, 1960. Paperback. Good. Pages yellowed. Cover has small tear at top of spine. # s347. The Steel Cocoon...naked, unsparing, day-by-day, moment-to-moment chronicle of Navy men at war. Not just the big moments of storm or battle, but the grueling, intimate, nerve-cinching adjustments of men trapped within the confines of a floating steel cocoon. more information

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Star, 1981-07-17. Paperback. Good. Moderate wear, creasing. Edges and corners bumped and rubbed. No names or Inscriptions Inside. Pages are clean and Tight, some wear and foxing (aging). SUMMARY: IN A SHALLOW GRAVE is the story of Garnet Montrose, a WWII vet who was horribly disfigured in an explosion while serving as a soldier. Most of his friends were killed so he suffers the usual guilt complex over why he survived and others did not. His ugliness alienates him to such an extent that he is hardly able to find a nurse to help him with his medical concerns at his home. It's a pretty horrible comment on society that noone wants to look him in the face. Even those that act like they can handle it seem to lose their nerve and run away. It really reminded me a lot of Frankenstein of all things. Here again is the plot of the deformed man with a heart of gold searching for a friend to open his heart to. more information

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Jove Books, 1987-07. Paperback. Acceptable. Paperback, Cover worn, pages tight. Prequel written to fill in some of the history of the characters from the Floating Outfit. more information

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Vantage Press, Inc, 2002. Paperback. Good. Paperback, nice tight copy. Cover slightly worn, small chip on front cover. In the SIGO Affair, author Judd Wilkins gives some names, faces, and very human emotions to a tale of a failed military experiment. During WWII, a very select group of soldiers were chosen for an experiment in small independent group investigations, or SIGO. Sent into the Pacific Theater of Operations, these men would find many officers totally unprepared for dealing with SIGO tactics. more information

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Penguin Books, 1991. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Light wear, some creasing, edge and corner wear.Pages are clean and Tight.Not ex-library.No names or Inscriptions Inside.Store stamp & price inside. Good book for anyone who likes CIA/government espionage/military reads. CIA agent Jack Downey is executing an elaborate operation whose true aim only he knows. He has told his Cairo bureau chief that his bizarre team of renegades training the blazing heat of the desert is going to protect a defecting Libyan colonel. The squad of hit men and mercenaries, which includes some mysterious choices-a beautiful English woman who runs an antique shop and a down-and-out American-think that they are out to assassinate a controversial Arab leader. But the full scope of Downey's deadly game, with all its devastating international consequences, is hidden even from them. more information

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Pinnacle Books, 1972. Paperback. Good. Price written inside. Cover worn. Tight copy. A pseudonym of Isaac Asimov. Electrifying suspense from blackmail to drugs to campus riots to murder...and a plot to subvert the USA!. more information

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Kensington Mass Market, 1987-09. 4th printing. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Light wear, some creasing, edge and corner wear.No names or Inscriptions Inside.Store stamp & price inside.Pages are clean and Tight.Not ex-library. "Trapped by the ice, hiding from the russians, carrying a deadly cargo, were they destined to become a....ghost sub more information

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