A GAME OF SOLDIERS by Jackman, Stuart

New York 1982, Atheneum, first US edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, FINE/VG CONDITION ( several light creases in dj flaps ), 303 pages, map. ----------------------------------------------October 15, 1944: an ominous silence emanates from the 87th Maintenance Unit in the Nile delta town of Marazag. Then the message comes, more ominous than the silence: WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY SITUATION. ADJUTANT HAS BEEN SHOT AND IS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. MEN ARE BARRICADED IN CINEMA. THIS IS A MAYDAY. I SAY AGAIN, THIS IS A MAYA relief force leaves immediately for Marazag, fifty veteran men under the command of Squadron Leader H. Hobey, but even they are not prepared for what they find: a story of murder, mutiny and military collapse bloodcurdling in its detail and threatening to erupt again at any moment. From its first page to the hair-trigger climax, A Game of Soldiers is a fast-moving, sharply authentic novel of adventure and character, filled with the smell and grit of the desert, the violence of the men who lived there, and the explosive tensions of the war they fought.