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Ben Blum. Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
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Dedication
THE RANGER CREED
PROLOGUE
BOOK 1. THE GOLEM OF TACOMA
CHAPTER 1. SORT OF A HAPPY/SAD DEAL
CHAPTER 2. BASIC
CHAPTER 3. AMURICAN BANK ROBBER
CHAPTER 4. ONE FINE DAY AT BATTALION
CHAPTER 5. YES, SPECIALIST SOMMER
CHAPTER 6. THOSE WHO ARE VERSED IN THE SCIENCES
CHAPTER 7. SOMETHING YOU WOULD SEE OUT OF A MOVIE
CHAPTER 8. FEDERAL VACATION
BOOK 2. THE PRODIGY OF PEACHLAND
CHAPTER 9. SOLDIER
CHAPTER 10. INTERROGATION
CHAPTER 11. FREEDOM FIGHTER
CHAPTER 12. THE FOURTH MAN
BOOK 3. THE GOOD PERSON
CHAPTER 13. THE B-WORD
CHAPTER 14. JUST AN INEXPLICABLE EVENT
CHAPTER 15. THE COMPLEXITIES
CHAPTER 16. THE PHABULOUS PHILS
CHAPTER 17. GETTING REAL
CHAPTER 18. REAL REAL
BOOK 4. THE DUNGEON MASTER
CHAPTER 19. WHEN BAD PEOPLE DO GOOD THINGS
CHAPTER 20. SPACE STATION SOMMER
CHAPTER 21. TOTAL DATA
CHAPTER 22. THE SOMMER FACTOR
CHAPTER 23. FORCE OF PERSONALITY
CHAPTER 24. THE LADY IN THE STRIPED SHIRT
CHAPTER 25. THE P-WORD
CHAPTER 26. PROBABLY SOMETHING I’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND
BOOK 5. FREEDOM
CHAPTER 27. MATRIX OF LIES
CHAPTER 28. BIRTH OF A BANK ROBBER
CHAPTER 29. THE REST OF US
AUTHOR’S NOTE
FOOTNOTES. CHAPTER 2: BASIC
CHAPTER 9: SOLDIER
CHAPTER 10: INTERROGATION
CHAPTER 12: THE FOURTH MAN
CHAPTER 21: TOTAL DATA
CHAPTER 24: THE LADY IN THE STRIPED SHIRT
CHAPTER 25: THE P-WORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Publisher
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FOR OMA
Acknowledging the fact that a Ranger is a more elite Soldier who arrives at the cutting edge of battle by land, sea, or air, I accept the fact that as a Ranger my country expects me to move further, faster, and fight harder than any other Soldier.
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To Norm, these stories were yet another wall between himself and a father who had taken the whole family to all of Al Junior’s high school football games but had never attended more than one or two of Norm’s baseball and hockey games. When he passed sanitized versions on to his children years later, it seemed only fitting to burnish them a little, as tribute to the grandfather they would never have a chance to meet. He didn’t expect them to become objects of lasting fascination. But Alex thought they were awesome. He told them to any friend who would listen.
A recruiter first called Alex in December, having gotten his number from Andrew. Over the ensuing months they met about half a dozen times at the recruitment center in the strip mall across from the Family Sports Ice Arena, where Alex had first started skating so many years before. Soon he told his dad the recruiter wanted to meet him too.
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