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Capturing the Texas Rancher's Heart

#Free4All gritty and realistic

Bloomsbury USA
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
Featuring: Lieutenant Donavan
400 pages
ISBN: 162040754X
EAN: 9781620407547
Kindle: B00JZP1C9E
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Michael Pitre

Michael Pitre
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It’s the rule—always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When
a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay
in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A
bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing
everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep
twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills
the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead.

Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine’s life
in the road repair platoon. Dispatched to fill potholes on
the highways of Iraq, the platoon works to assure safe
passage for citizens and military personnel. Their mission
lacks the glory of the infantry, but in a war where every
pothole contains a hidden bomb, road repair brings its own
danger.

Lieutenant Donavan leads the platoon, painfully aware of his
shortcomings and isolated by his rank. Doc Pleasant, the
medic, joined for opportunity, but finds his pride undone as
he watches friends die. And there’s Kateb, known to the
Americans as Dodge, an Iraqi interpreter whose love of
American culture—from hip-hop to the dog-eared copy of Huck
Finn he carries—is matched only by his disdain for what
Americans are doing to his country.

Returning home, they exchange one set of decisions and
repercussions for another, struggling to find a place in a
world that no longer knows them. A debut both transcendent
and rooted in the flesh, Fives and Twenty-Fives is a deeply
necessary novel.