Boots On Manhattan: The Foot Soldier (Part 1)

Boots On Manhattan: The Foot Soldier (Part 1)

Description of Boots on Manhattan

The Foot Soldier- Part I: Boots on Manhattan is a coming of age story about a boy who came of age so fast that he, like the Ray Boylan, the co-author of this book, successfully, but illegally joined the U. S. Marines when he was fifteen. In the novel, though, the boy, Thomas â€˜Bootsâ€™ Raymondâ€™s enlistment is a desperate attempt to avoid the retributive bloodshed of an enraged and superstitious gang leader, â€œRabbitâ€ Lacey, who held him responsible for the death of his father and his best friend. The story chronicles Boots and his friendsâ€™ childhood split from the Rattlers, a teenage gang, when he was still in Middle School and his later role in the formation of the West Side Warriors, set on retaliation against â€˜Rabbitâ€™ Laceyâ€™s gang. The retaliation Boots and the other Warriors choose is apocalyptic and humiliating, sending Rabbit on a course of destruction, which ravages his family and friends. During the course of this book, Rabbit finds buried family secrets in a personal diary, hidden by his father, which sends him on a path leading to a cat-and-mouse chase that climaxes on the frigid battlefield of Inchon, featured in the second book of he series. But, it is in this, the first book, that the groundwork is laid for a secret operation with the North Korean rebels who would, a few years later, cross the 38th parallel and place the United States and the North Koreans in deadly conflict with each other.
Yet, it is through revelations half-revealed in the secret diary of Rabbitâ€™s father, Sergeant Max Lacey, that the distant promises of another war shed light on the strange role Lacey will play in infecting the streets of Manhattan with the advancing shadows of the Korean conflict.
Originally as a copywriter for a radio station in Detroit in the 1930â€™s, Max Lacey believed he had a shot to play the Hornet in a new, breakthrough series originating at his station in 1930â€™s. Soundly rejected for the part, Lacey was amazed to find himself a few years later emerging a parallel, but real world hero in the midst of brutal combat in the Philippines.
There the altercation of rival gangs masks the mysterious and possibly treasonous activities of a gang leaderâ€™s father, a wounded hero of the Philippines, whose life had been strung tightly together with a Korean patriot. It is this friendship which ultimately imperils the happiness and survival of Boots and Rabbitâ€™s family and friends and propels them, in the next book, to risk their lives thousands of miles away in what the English once called â€œChosin, the Land of the Morning Calm,â€ but what we now call North Korea, hardly calm and now in the throes of a repressive government that aggressively seeks to intimidate the international community with its quest for military supremacy in a volatile and dangerous part of the world.
Country USA
Manufacturer New Galaxy Enterprises
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-08-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New Galaxy Enterprises
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-08-05
Format	Kindle eBook

Boots On Manhattan: The Foot Soldier (Part 1)

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