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Point Of Impact
The Second Saladin
The Master Sniper
A Time To Hunt
The Day Before Midnight
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It is fortuitous that “The Naked Soldier” is being published at about the same time as Jaime Salazar’s “Legion of the Damned”. These two memoirs stand as book ends of the Legion experience. Although ten years seperate the two men’s years of service, what really divides them is that Sloane remained with the Legion for his full five year enlistment contract whereas Salazar deserted after little more than a year of service.
When Salazar joins the Legion, he is a BMW driving, 25 year old mechanical engineer who has dropped out of the corporate rat race. His book does a good job of detailing the day to day experience of his year in the Legion. All of the set pieces of a Legion memoir are in place. In the end, Salazar does what is logical for a college educated, middle class person with plenty of options, he deserts the Legion. Salazar’s memoir is strong on details of Legion life but is weak on personal insight. It is as though Salazar is still too close to his Legion experience to really understand his own motivations.
Eric Sloane is on the other end of life experience. At the age of Eighteen, he finds himself homeless and without a job in the South of France. Having read Simon Murray’s “Legionaire” a few years earlier, he decides that the promise of adventure is for him and he joins the Legion. Unlike Salazar, Sloane stays in the Legion for the full five years. He has a lot more ground to cover in his memoir. While Sloane touches on the hard training and the brutal treatment, they are not the focus of his memoir. Unlike Salazar, he does not chronicle every single injustice that befalls him.
What elevates “The Naked Soldier” the highest tier of Legion memoirs is that it is primarily a story of Sloane’s psychological state while in the Legion. This is the memoir of a wiser thrity four year old man looking back at his life when he was in his late teens and early twenties. The memoir’s strength is that Sloane is able to describe that poisonous mixture of anger, self-pity, naked agression and alienation all combined with copious amounts of alcohol and ugly sex. While Salazar was attracted to this toxic mess, Sloane wallowed in it and absorbed it into his very being.
I still think that Simon Murray’s “Legionaire” and Christian Jenning’s “Mouthful of Rocks” are the two great Legion memoirs. However, “The Naked Soldier” and “Legion of the Damned” when read together give a more updated picture of what the Legion is like today. Between the two books, I would choose “The Naked Soldier” because it is richer in the psycological insights.
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive.
This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the mountains that led, ultimately, to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. But it is also, more than anything, the story of his teammates, who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left-blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe, who risked everything to protect him from the encircling Taliban killers.
A six-foot-five-inch Texan, Leading Petty Officer Luttrell takes us, blow-by-blow, through the brutal training of America’s warrior elite and the relentless rites of passage required by the Navy SEALs. He transports us to a monstrous battle fought in the desolate peaks of Afghanistan, where the beleaguered American team plummeted headlong a thousand feet down a mountain as they fought back through flying shale and rocks. In this rich , moving chronicle of courage, honor, and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers one of the most powerful narratives ever written about modern warfare-and a tribute to his teammates, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
In The 47th Samurai, Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter’s bestselling novels Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, returns in Hunter’s most intense and exotic thriller to date.Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived.
More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano’s quest.
Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to do so, he throws himself into the world of the samurai, Tokyo’s dark, criminal yakuza underworld, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture.
Swagger’s allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the brave, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, help him move through this strange, glittering, and ominous world from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officials in the highest echelons of the Japanese government, but in the end, he is on his own and will succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai.
As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is that money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.
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