God's Children
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ISBN: 0312862962 / Publisher: Forge Books, February 2000
Assigned to peace-keeping duties in a troubled and violent Eastern European country, two young officers and the soldiers of the Third Platoon, Company C, struggle to keep the peace in a world that is disintegrating around them
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A tale of high-tech warfare set in the near future, God's Children is the story of the 3rd Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion of the 13th Infantry, and two young officers who attempt to keep a peace that is falling apart before their very eyes.Fresh from West Point, Second Lieutenant Gerald Reider finds himself thrust into the middle of this growing crisis. Faced with an uncertain situation on the ground, the battalion commander sends a seasoned officer along with Reider during his first patrol. For First Lieutenant Nathan Dixon, the assignment to accompany the 3rd Platoon during a routine patrol is a welcome break from a staff assignment that he finds stifling and mundane. But Reider's first patrol quickly becomes anything but routine as ethnic tensions, so long held in check by the peacekeepers, break into open conflict. Caught in the middle, isolated from their parent unit, and assailed by both warring parties, the 3rd Platoon finds itself in a struggle for survival against overwhelming odds.
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