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London : Bantam Press, 2000.
Description
Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family debt of friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage forgotten war between Kurdish guerillas and Saddam Hussein's military strength.
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LibraryThing member HenriMoreaux
This is the fourth book I've read by Gerald Seymour, and is the best one so far, immensely better than Condition Black.
This one is the story of two snipers, one repaying a family debt, the other a minion of the Iraqi regime. In between them is a CIA/SIS promoted surge by the Kurds in Northern Iraq.
I found it to be quite the gripping tale and didn't present people as idealistic heroes, instead portraying the characters as the flawed people they would likely be had they existed in reality.
Worth the read.
This one is the story of two snipers, one repaying a family debt, the other a minion of the Iraqi regime. In between them is a CIA/SIS promoted surge by the Kurds in Northern Iraq.
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What follows is a battle between two men as the surge crumbles away due to politics and treachery. I found it to be quite the gripping tale and didn't present people as idealistic heroes, instead portraying the characters as the flawed people they would likely be had they existed in reality.
Worth the read.
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