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Under Fire by W.E.B. Griffin

Under Fire

A Corps Novels

by W.E.B. Griffin
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  • First Published:
  • Jan 1, 2002, 544 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jan 2003, 736 pages
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"Yes, I would say he is," Pickering agreed.

And the first thing you're going to have to learn, you simpleton, is that no one works with El Supremo, they work for him.

And the second is that the only advice Douglas MacArthur listens to is that advice which completely agrees with his positions in every minute detail.

Reprinted from Under Fire by W.E.B. Griffin by permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Copyright © January 2002, W.E.B. Griffin. All rights reserved. This excerpt, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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