Ranger games : a story of soldiers, family and an inexplicable crime
Blum, Ben, 1981-2017
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Alex Blum was a clean-cut all-American kid with one unshakeable goal in life: to serve his country in the military. He was accepted into the elite Rangers regiment, but on the first day of his leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, drove to a local bank in Tacoma, and committed armed robbery. How could he have done such a thing? Alex's attorney presented a defence based on the theory that trainee Rangers are indoctrinated on a level akin to the brainwashing in an extreme religious cult, and Alex insisted that he had believed the robbery was just another exercise in the famously daunting Ranger programme. But Luke Elliot Sommer, the charismatic soldier behind the robbery, maintained that Alex knew exactly what he was doing, and had, in fact, planned it all with him. Who was lying?
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London : 4th Estate, 2017.London : 4th Estate, 2017.
Collation:
x, 414 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780007554584 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.1552
Language:
English
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BRN:
1811702