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Simon & Schuster
October 2007
On Sale: September 21, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 1416577920
EAN: 9781416577928
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The Serbs behind them were preparing to attack, and in
front of them lay open ground, flat and white as a shroud.
We've run a hundred miles, Lang thought, to come up a
football field short. When a fellow Marine is
kidnapped, Captain Mark Lang and his recon team, the
Pepperdogs, disobey orders and cross into snowbound Serbia
to rescue him. A leader who can't quit, Lang is urged on by
his team members. Five New York City reservists -- a trader,
a fireman, an auto mechanic, a fitness trainer and a
computer geek -- set out on an impossible odyssey. Superbly
fit and equipped, they employ speed, ambush and the Internet
to close in on their target. After a team member sends
back e-mails describing their firefights, the Pepperdogs
become front-page news. Once Weekend Warriors, by the end of
their mission they are the most feared unit in Europe,
fighting anyone who stands in their way. The press calls
them "The Wild Bunch on technological steroids."
Lang, haunted by memories of his missing buddy's dying
mother, knows the horrific costs they are inflicting but
won't turn back. Their rescue mission, condemned by the
military, slowly escalates into a standoff between the Oval
Office and NATO Europe with the world watching. A
razor-sharp storyteller and Pentagon insider, Bing West
unleashes a blistering techno thriller that probes the
limits of physical and mental endurance. Drawing on
firsthand knowledge of combat, West fuses the grit of
Blackhawk Down with the behind-the-scenes intrigue of
The West Wing, showing how in the near future a squad
can become wired to the White House, to the dismay of the
traditional chain of command. The Pepperdogs is a
gripping story about American reserves, conflicting
loyalties and devotion to comrade. What price will a nation
pay to save one life?
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