1976-7
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; North Shore; Three Rivers Stadium; McKees Rocks; Beaver County C4 - Thriller CY - Boston LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Renegade ex-U.S. soldiers, paramilitary who call themselves the People’s Liberation Army, take control on August 14, 1977 of the fictitious Bartonsville Fast-Breed Reactor just 32 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. PB - Little, Brown & Company PP - Boston PY - 1977 RN - Writer James N. Rowe (1938-89) was a U.S. Army officer and one of only 34 soldiers to escape Communist imprisonment during the Vietnam War. A conservative Republican, he was unsuccessful in running for office in the 1970s in his native Texas, then began writing. His first book was a memoir of his five-year captivity. The Judas Squad is his first and only novel. He rejoined the Army in 1981 to train Special Forces. While on a mission in the Philippines in 1989, he was assassinated near Quezon City by Communist insurgents of the New People’s Army. EP - 325 p. TI - The Judas Squad ER -