The Judas Squad
Year of Publication |
1977
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Publication Type |
Novel
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Number of Pages or Episodes |
325 p.
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Language |
English
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Contributors |
Author:
James N. Rowe |
Publisher |
Little, Brown & Company
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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.
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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.
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Time |
1976-7 |
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