Owen West, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0542-9
Former Marine West shows staggering insight into the demoralizing dangers of Third World police duty in this powerful debut chronicling the clash of Marine vets and armed warlords in Somalia. Lt. Gavin Kelly went from Harvard ROTC to Desert Storm...
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Owen West, Author , read by Lee Sellars. S&S Audio $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-0959-6
Pairing Sellars with this knockout work was truly inspired. Sellars's performance is one of those rare occasions where narrative and narrator are in perfect sync. In a tone reminiscent of Capt. Benjamin Willard, Martin Sheen's character in...
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Owen West, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2982-1
Darren Phillips, a major in the Marines, and his wife, Kate, never dreamed they would spend their Mexico honeymoon chasing down drug dealers and crooked federales, but that's precisely what happens in this shoot-and-pursuit thriller. West (Sharkm
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Owen West. Free Press, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5593-3
A former U.S. Marine major with two tours in Iraq (and the author of two novels), West makes a convincing case for the importance of military advisers who train indigenous security forces to fight insurgencies, because indigenous forces know the...
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