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Название книги: The Killing Ground
Автор(ы): Jack Higgins
Жанр: Триллер
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The Sean Dillon series 14, 2008
Now the field of battle is a land of standingcorpses; those determined to die will live; thosewho hope to escape with their lives will die.– WU CH’IFOR HENRIETTA WITH LOVE
Chapter 1
BLAKE JOHNSON WAS RECEIVED WITH COURTESY AT THE American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, as befitted President Jake Cazalet’s most important security adviser, the head of a secret White House operation known simply as the Basement. An aide took him to the Ambassador’s office, a fine young Marine captain in dress uniform bearing medals from Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. “The Ambassador’s hosting a cocktail party, mostly for those who weren’t invited to Brussels for the conference.”“And who would that be?” Blake asked. “The dregs of every embassy in London, Major.”“I know the feeling. And it’s not ‘Major’- Vietnam was a long time ago.”“Once a Marine always a Marine, Major. My dad was in Vietnam, and my grandfather was in North Africa and in Normandy on D-Day.”“They must be proud of you. That Navy Cros
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