Breaking Ranks
Ed Ruggero. Pocket Books, $6.99 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-671-89172-5
Continuation of the Major Mark Isen series, in which he investigates the mysterious death of a soldier at Fort Bragg. (Dec.)
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Reviewed on: 12/02/1996
Genre: Fiction
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