Sean McFate. Oxford Univ, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-936010-9
Private military security contractors such as Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) receive plenty of publicity (mostly negative), yet “for nearly a decade, contractors have constituted half the United States forces in war zones.” PMSCs are the...
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Sean McFate and Bret Witter. Morrow, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-240370-4
At the start of army veteran McFate’s smart, exciting first novel and series launch—written with Witter (The Monuments Men, with Robert M. Edsel)—mercenary Tom Locke and his team rendezvous in the Libyan desert with a tribe of Tuareg who have two...
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Sean McFate and Bret Witter. Morrow, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-240373-5
McFate and Witter’s strong sequel to 2016’s Shadow War finds mercenary Tom Locke operating as a “slum merc” in ISIS territory north of Mosul, Iraq, after being betrayed by Brad Winters, his boss at Apollo Outcomes, a high-end military security...
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Sean McFate. Morrow, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-284358-6
McFate’s experience as professor of strategy at the National Defense University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, plus time spent in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and as a private military contractor in Africa, inform this...
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Sean McFate. Morrow, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-284365-4
McFate’s uneven third Tom Locke novel (after 2017’s Deep Black with Bret Witter) finds mercenary Locke still in hiding after Brad Winters, his onetime boss at the military security firm Apollo Outcomes, betrayed him. The assassination of the U.S....
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