Ebook {Epub PDF} Kickers: A Novel of the Secret War by Patrick Lee

Based on battles and events recalled by surviving smokejumpers, "Kickers" involves readers in a thirteen-year secret war most Americans don't know was fought. Similar in tone to Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War," Patrick Lee's story of betrayal and covert ops sets a new standard for Cold War novels. Kickers, a novel of the Secret War in South East Asia, is a darn good read. It follows the fates of three young men who meet as smoke jumpers in Idaho and are recruited by the CIA for paramilitary support. Charlie, Dog, and Thanasis are vivid and unique characters, as memorable as any in literature/5(7). Kickers - a novel of the Secret War. 98 likes. Kickers is a new novel from Patrick Lee, based on interviews with smokejumpers who were used by the CIA in the early s to fight a secret war in Laos.

By Rebecca Donner $ Little, Brown. Nonfiction. Equal parts biography, history and thriller, this book tells the story of the author's idealistic but doomed great-great-aunt, Mildred Harnack. In his debut novel, Lee capably delivers an untold chronicle of the Vietnam War for military enthusiasts and anti-war readers alike. Lee's protagonists are "smokejumpers," U.S. Forest Service firefighters who daringly parachute into remote regions of the American West to battle forest fires. In , officers in the CIA see this as a. Kickers: A Novel Of The Secret War|Patrick Lee, Printing in Spain |F. J. Norton, Subjects in Japanese and English (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics)|Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Christmas carols, ancient and modern: including the most popular in the west of England, and the airs to which they are sung. Also specimens of French provincial carols. With an introduction and notes|William.

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