If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Best breakdown of the fight that I've read was in Dangerous Men by Scott Ferguson with an intro by Ayoob.
The book is an analysis of several historical shootouts in the light of modern understanding of the dynamics of, and the effects of deadly force situations on the men involved.
Pretty good. I'll reread the OK corral section periodically.
This one is a definite fit for the P-F crowd...imho. I'm 80% through it. You won't be bored. Trust me.
From amazon:
A distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named Jules Bettinger. Because of this incident, the unkind (but decorated) policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from Arizona to the frigid north, where he will work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri. This collapsed rustbelt city is a dying beast that devours itself and its inhabitants...and has done so for more than four decades. Its streets are covered with dead pigeons and there are seven hundred criminals for every law enforcer.
Partnered with a boorish and demoted corporal, Bettinger investigates a double homicide in which two policemen were slain and mutilated. The detective looks for answers in the fringes of the city and also in the pasts of the cops with whom he works--men who stomped on a local drug dealer until he was disabled.
Bettinger soon begins to suspect that the double homicide is not an isolated event, but a prelude to a series of cop executions...
The author is currently adapting this book into a movie for Warner Brothers; Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio are both attached to the project.
There's nothing civil about this war.
After this thread made me buy and read both Salt and Cod, I was irked when I found that The Basque History of the World by Kurlansky is not in Kindle format. Damnit.
#RESIST
@Coyotesfan97
Here you go, bro':
https://www.amazon.com/Mean-Business...=UTF8&qid=&sr=
It even has an Arizona connection.
(Also, check your PMs if you get a chance)
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There's nothing civil about this war.
About 25% into this one. Outrageous book, tremendously entertaining. Sex, violence, adventure, intrigue.
https://www.amazon.com/Adventurers-H.../dp/1452045674
https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-adventu...156831858.html
Harold Robbins, a novelist known for steamy passion in his works, stirs up passion of a different kind in The Adventurers, a story of revolution and danger in the sultry jungles of South America. As a young boy, Diogenes Alejandro Xenos, witnesses the murder of his mother and sister by a band of marauders. As "Dax" grows to adulthood, he channels his fear and hatred into a desire for revolution, swearing revenge on those in power as he upsets the status quo. His actions make him an outlaw, living on the fringes of society in a land turned upside down with corruption. He is wanted by men and women alike-but for very different reasons. This epic tale of escape from the horrors of a third-world regime is one of Harold Robbins' most ambitious novels ever,