Books by Ed Ruggero and Complete Book Reviews

Ed Ruggero, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-06-073128-1
Ruggero retraces the course of the storied 82nd Airborne Division as it jumped into occupied France on the night before June 6, 1944, in this vivid and often intimate account. Focusing on "those crucial first three days in France," he...
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Ed Ruggero, Author HarperCollins $27.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-019317-1
Novelist Ruggero tries to explain precisely what makes the United States Military Academy, better known as West Point, a breeding ground for future leaders. He should know: not only is Ruggero a graduate, he taught English literature there for...
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Ed Ruggero, Author Atria Books $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-89170-1
Army Major Mark Isen, last seen in Firefall, is trapped in the Pentagon, ``driving a desk,'' when his mentor, Major General Flynn, asks if he would investigate the suicide of Flynn's nephew, Michael Hauck. Isen jumps at the chance to escape...
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Ed Ruggero, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-671-89172-5
Continuation of the Major Mark Isen series, in which he investigates the mysterious death of a soldier at Fort Bragg. (Dec.)
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Ed Ruggero, Author Atria Books $24 (464p) ISBN 978-0-671-89169-5
Like Lucien Truscott in his recent thriller Heart of War, Ruggero takes aim at relations between the sexes in this lurid potboiler about scandal at West Point. The potboiling itself is the work of Kathleen Gates, wife of Major Tom Gates, the new...
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Ed Ruggero, Author, Ruggero, Author Atria Books $18.95 (395p) ISBN 978-0-671-70021-8
The author, a career officer currently teaching English at West Point, sets his first novel in the near future, when North Korea once again invades the South. Spearheading the U.S. response is a light infantry division from Hawaii. Eschewing...
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Ed Ruggero, Author, Ruggero, Author, Paul McCarthy, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70022-5
When North Korea once again invades the South, the U.S. responds with a light infantry division; Ruggero focuses on a rifle company's deployment, initial patrols, rear-guard action and climactic final air assault. ``While the characters are adequate
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Ed Ruggero, Author, Ruggero, Author, Paul McCarthy, Editor Atria Books $20 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-73008-6
In the near future of Ruggero's second techno-thriller (after 38 North Yankee ), U.S. ``advisers'' have been assigned to the Mexican army as part of an anti-drug campaign. Infantry captain Mark Isen and Delta Force major Ray Spano, already aware...
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Ed Ruggero, Author, Ruggero, Author, Paul McCarthy, Editor Atria Books $22 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-73010-9
American Army Rangers parachuting into the winter German countryside believe they are part of a peaceful multinational training exercise but, in a frighteningly believable vision of possible European political developments, a fanatical German...
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Ed Ruggero, Author, Paul McCarthy, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-73011-6
In this frightening, third outing, Major Mark Isen, hero of Ruggero's 38 North Yankee, is embroiled in a civil war in the German countryside. (Feb.)
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Ed Ruggero. Forge, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-31274-7
At the start of this exceptional WWII mystery and series launch from Ruggero (The Academy), Lt. Eddie Harkins, an MP who was once a Philadelphia beat cop, comes across a murder scene near Palermo, Sicily. In the confusion of a German air raid at...
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Ed Ruggero. Forge, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-31287-7
Set in April 1944, Ruggero’s taut sequel to 2020’s Blame the Dead finds Lt. Eddie Harkins, a former Philadelphia beat cop, reassigned to the London branch of the Office of Strategic Services after a stint as an MP. On Harkins’s first day on the new...
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