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Dagger 22
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We March at Midnight is award-winning author Ray McPadden’s chronicle of his experience as a highly decorated Ranger officer leading some of the most dangerous missions during the height of the Iraq and Afghan wars....
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Very good.
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The first eyewitness account of the fraught evacuation of Kabul....
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Hard to put down
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When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she’d fly to the Middle East under an alias identity....
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Funny and exciting,Carnivore offers fresh insight into the mind and heart of a warrior and offers a look at the lives of troops on the ground not seen before....
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Great story Well read
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