The Judas Squad

Year of Publication
1977
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
325 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: James N. Rowe
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
City
Boston
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Abstract
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.
Author Biography
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.
Time

1976-7

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