#1 Hot New Release in Legal Thrillers. Experience the suspense and mystery of the latest in the best selling legal thriller series from the author critics hail as:"One of the strongest thriller writers on the scene."
This fast-paced and action packed legal and military thriller introduces us to 26-year-old Captain Ryan Bennington, in command of a company during the Iraq Warand fighting a faceless enemy in the global war on terror where a split-second decision could mean the difference between killing an innocent civilian or losing an entire platoon to a suicide bomber. Ryan survives the war and comes home to conquer PTSD and chronic unemployment, only to be arrested for following the orders of his Commander to kill suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists in a small Iraqi village, who turn out, after the raid, to be civilians.
Lawyer Brent Marks takes on Ryan's defense in his court-martial trial, which will reveal the deepest, darkest secrets of the military industrial complex. In their search for a scapegoat, have the powers-that-be gone too far this time?
Genre: FICTION / Legal#1 hot new release in legal thrillers for two weeks (#3 was John Grisham's "Rogue Lawyer"
22 reviews with 4.6 star average
Award winning and best selling top 100 thriller author
“When we rolled into Baghdad, we took a bunch of random shots from civilian partisans, and just kept going. After the thunder run raids, each battalion was assigned to secure a section of the city. My company was assigned a sub-section, but we were actively taking small arms fire from snipers, so it looked like it would be a long mission. We established a perimeter and dug in for the night in an abandoned building. I ordered recon patrols to venture 100 meters around the perimeter to look for the enemy.”
Around midnight an Iraqi woman approached the Command post. She was crying, reaching her hands up into the night air.
“How did this woman get through our perimeter, Sergeant? Fire off some warning shots and get her out of here!”
Sergeant Thomas fired warning shots into the air, but the woman kept coming. Suddenly, she dropped to her knees.
“RPG!” yelled a soldier on watch, as a rocket-propelled grenade came streaking toward them.
“Everybody down!” Ryan screamed.
The grenade hit one of the Humvees, the explosion lifting it off its bed and throwing it on its side like it was a kid’s toy. The soldiers hit the pavement.
“Move out! Now!” Ryan yelled to Sergeant Thomas, who signaled the drivers of the convoy. The trucks roared to cover of the Command post building under heavy small arms fire, shooting their 50-caliber machine guns toward the line of hostile fire as an RPG exploded the last retreating Humvee, throwing the gunner clear of the truck.
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Translated by Samad Mammadov
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