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The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War
by Bing West
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1642936731
- ISBN 13
- 9781642936735
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York/Nashville: Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, 2020. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. First edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed "Semper Fi Bing" by Bing West on the first free endpaper. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and unmarred boards. Light crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00 on the back panel) with a pin-head-sized hole to the back lower panel and faint creases to spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 383 pages. 6 x 9¼" tall.
A small team of CIA operatives and Marines commanded by Captain Diego Cruz are protecting a tiny base in Helmand—the most violent province in Afghanistan. In a series of escalating fights, Cruz must prove he is a combat leader, despite the growing disapproval of the colonel in overall charge. At the same time, the president has ordered the CIA to capture a drug lord. But with a fortune in heroin at stake, the Taliban joins with the drug lord to wipe out the base. As the president negotiates a secret deal, Cruz must rally the Marines to make a last stand. Bringing you into America's longest war with vivid immediacy, The Last Platoon portrays how leaders rise or wilt under intense pressure. A searing, timeless story of moral conflict, savage combat, and feckless politics.
"Bing West is the grunt's Homer." —L.A. Times
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3651
- Title
- The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War
- Author
- Bing West
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1642936731
- ISBN 13
- 9781642936735
- Publisher
- Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press
- Place of Publication
- New York/Nashville
- Date Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 383
- Size
- 6 x 9.25
- Keywords
- military, war, combat, Afghanistan
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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