Description: Twenty years ago Martin Limn published his first mystery featuring Sergeant George Sueo, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US Eighth Army base in South Korea during the heart of the Cold War. George and his partner, the rowdy Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which the Army has come into conflict with local Korean law enforcementoften incidents in which American soldiers have committed a crime. Sueo's job is partially to solve crimes but mostly to cover top brass' backside. After nine critically acclaimed novels comes this collection of Limn's award-winning short stories featuring Sueo and Bascom.
Brief description:
Timothy Hallinan is the Edgar and Macavity Award-nominated author of over a dozen widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender series. In 2010 he conceived and edited an e-book of original short stories by twenty mystery writers, Shaken: Stories for Japan, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Japanese disaster relief.
Review Quotes:
"Limón is one of the best military writers ever. His stories are addictive entertainment today--and valuable slices of history tomorrow."
-- "Lee Child"