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COLD WARRIORS
SMOKEJUMPERS WERE HEROES
IN A SECRET WAR AGAINST COMMUNISM
YOU’VE NEVER READ ANYTHING LIKE IT!
JFK, THE CIA, AND COLLEGE-AGE SMOKEJUMPING FIREFIGHTERS JOIN TOGETHER TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
INSTANT GUEST AUTHOR: Patrick Lee, is author of Kickers: A Novel Of The Secret War.
AN AMAZING COLD WAR THRILLER
“Laos, 1961. The Communist Pathet Lao threatens a Laos takeover with Russian military support. Newly elected US President John F. Kennedy contemplates military intervention in the small Southeast Asia country. Aware that military confrontation could escalate into nuclear war, Kennedy elects to fight a covert war using CIA surrogate assets.
The intelligence agency chooses as its surrogates for the war Meo tribesmen and college-age US Forest Service firefighters, smokejumpers without military experience.
For newly-recruited smokejumpers Thanasis, Charlie, and Dog, the CIA’s offer brings excitement, damn good money, and good times at Lulu’s in Vientiane. It’s a sweet adventure for the three young men until they realize the CIA is willing to sacrifice both smokejumpers and Meo to control Laos.
Based on battles and events recalled by surviving smokejumpers, Kickers involves readers in a thirteen-year secret war most Americans don’t know was fought. Similar in tone to Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War, Patrick Lee’s story of betrayal and covert ops sets a new standard for Cold War novels.”
PLUG BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/Kickers-novel-Secret-Patrick-Lee/dp/1492911038/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418186884&sr=8-1&keywords=kickers+patrick+lee&pebp=1418186888800
BIO: Patrick Lee is a former smokejumper who made twenty-five parachute jumps into the Idaho Primitive Area fighting forest fires. After leaving jumping to study law he began to hear of smokejumper deaths in Laos, including those of men who had been his jump partners. Interviews of surviving smokejumpers about their CIA experiences in Laos convinced Lee their stories needed to be told. He incorporated core elements of their recollections in Kickers. After forty-five years practicing law, Lee now lives on a ranch in the Sawtooth Mountains of Central Idaho.
WEBSITE: kickersthenovel.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kickersthenovel
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