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Under Fire #9

When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, McCoy is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel.

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  • "The new novel in NYT bestselling Griffin's bestselling Corps series takes his marine heroes to Korea. Summary Griffin, author of the bestselling "Brotherhood of War, " takes his Marine heroes to Korea in the biggest Corps novel of them all. Filled with crackling realism, adventure, and rich characters that are his hallmarks, "Under Fire" is further proof, as Tom Clancy says, that "W.E.B. Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition.""
  • "When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, McCoy is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel."@en
  • ""June 1, 1950: Captain Ken McCoy's report on probable North Korean hostilities meets with so much bueaucratic displeasure that not only is it promptly suppressed, but McCoy himself is kicked out of the Corps. ... On June 25 [North Koreans] invade across the 38th parallel."--Jacket."
  • "When a Marine captain is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, he is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against North Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel."@en
  • "When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, he is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel."
  • "When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, he is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel."@en
  • "After the epic struggle of World War II, W.E.B. Griffin's bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfare'with new weapons, new strategies, and a new breed of warrior'on the battlefields of Korea' In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy's report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps'and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their families, names such as Inchon and Pusan will acquire a new, bloody reality'and become their greatest challenge of all'"@en
  • "When Captain Ken McCoy's report on hostilities in North Korea, gets him kicked out of the Corp, he joins the CIA. Soon after the his predictions come true and the U.S. is again embroiled in a war."@en

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  • "History"@en
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Spy stories"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "War stories"
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  • "Under fire : a Corps novel, Bk. 9"
  • "Under fire book 9 - The Corps"
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  • "Under fire : a novel of the Corps"
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  • "Under fire : A novel of the corps"
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  • "Under Fire"
  • "Under fire : [a Corps novel]"@en

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