Shard

<p><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>Private Ethan Shard is part of the US Army of Occupation in Japan 1950 knee-deep in the black market getting rich stealing from the Army and selling to Japanese gangs. All that changes when the North Koreans invade South Korea and overwhelm the defending forces. Ethan Shard is sent to war along with his partner-in-crime Elliot Skitter Skinner part of a hastily organized force in a desperate attempt to halt the North Korean advance. In their first skirmish the two men are captured. It will take all of Shard's strength to help survive the brutality of the climate their captors and their own natures in this novel of captivity betrayal and endurance.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em>Praise for SHARD:</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Korean War is often called the forgotten war. SHARD James R. Benn's exquisitely researched novel brings that tragic era blazingly to life. After reading it you will never forget that war nor the men who fought it again.</span></p><p>-Martin Lim��n author of War Women and other Sergeants Sue��o and Bascom novels.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Concise well-researched exciting intensely personal and illuminating. SHARD Benn's fictional exploration of the Korean War-America's forgotten war-is breathtaking in its detail and astounding in its emotional depth and breadth. An electrifying boots-on-the-ground look at the past that is especially pertinent today.</span></p><p> -<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stephen Mack Jones author of the AUGUST SNOW thrillers</span></p><p> </p><p><em>Praise for James R. Benn's Billy Boyle WWII series:</em></p><p>Spirited wartime storytelling.</p><p> -The New York Times Book Review</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As is always the case with Benn's books the painstaking research is evident the story crackles with life and the overlay of fictional characters onto very real historical events is seamless.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Bookpage</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Exceptional . . . Benn has never been better at integrating a whodunit plotline with a realistic depiction of life on or near the battlefield.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Publisher's Weekly Starred review</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Extensive historical and military contextual detail copious suspense plenty of action and the innate politics of power are distinctive traits of this acclaimed World War II-set series.</span></p><p> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Library Journal</span></p>