Hart's WarHart's War
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Book, 1999
Current format, Book, 1999, 1st ed, No Longer Available.Book, 1999
Current format, Book, 1999, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsSecond Lieutenant Tommy Hart, the navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another kriegie ("war captured") at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria.
Then routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a new prisoner: First Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American Tuskegee airman who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow soldiers. His most notable adversary is Vincent Bedford, a decorated bomber captain from Mississippi. The hatred between the two men is as volatile as a grenade ready to be detonated.
When a prisoner is brutally murdered, and all the blood-soaked evidence points to Scott, Hart is tapped to defend the soldier, who steadfastly claims his innocence. Yet from the start, Hart senses he has been chosen merely to make a show of defending the accused in what is presumed to be an open-and-shut case.
In a trial rife with racial tension and raw conflict, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, there are those with their own secret motives - and a burning passion for a rush to judgment; no matter the cost.
The author of Just Cause continues his run of acclaimed suspense novels with the fiery tale of an American lieutenant, imprisoned in a Nazi war camp, who comes to the defense of a black soldier framed for murder. 150,000 first printing.
When all evidence points to fellow prisoner of war Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American pilot, Lieutenant Tommy Hart is asked to defend Scott, who claims he is innocent
Then routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a new prisoner: First Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American Tuskegee airman who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow soldiers. His most notable adversary is Vincent Bedford, a decorated bomber captain from Mississippi. The hatred between the two men is as volatile as a grenade ready to be detonated.
When a prisoner is brutally murdered, and all the blood-soaked evidence points to Scott, Hart is tapped to defend the soldier, who steadfastly claims his innocence. Yet from the start, Hart senses he has been chosen merely to make a show of defending the accused in what is presumed to be an open-and-shut case.
In a trial rife with racial tension and raw conflict, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, there are those with their own secret motives - and a burning passion for a rush to judgment; no matter the cost.
The author of Just Cause continues his run of acclaimed suspense novels with the fiery tale of an American lieutenant, imprisoned in a Nazi war camp, who comes to the defense of a black soldier framed for murder. 150,000 first printing.
When all evidence points to fellow prisoner of war Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American pilot, Lieutenant Tommy Hart is asked to defend Scott, who claims he is innocent
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