He's back. Everyone's favorite globe-trotting, tomb-raiding, wisecracking archaeologist is finally at it again - hurtling headfirst into high adventure and relying on his wits, his fists, and his trusty bullwhip to get him out of deep trouble. But the man in the jaunty brown fedora and battered leather jacket is no ordinary digger in the dirt. From the fabled lost Ark of the Covenant to the legendary Holy Grail, he's salvaged the world's most amazing artifacts, while beating the baddest villains and defying the most breathtaking odds.
Now it's 1957, the atomic age is in full swing, and McCarthy-era paranoia has the nation on edge. But for Indiana Jones, the Cold War really heats up when his latest expedition is crashed by a ruthless squad of Russian soldiers. Commanded by a sword-wielding colonel who's as sinister as she is stunning, the menacing Reds drag an unwilling Indy along as they brazenly invade American soil, massacre U.S. soldiers, and plunder a top-secret government warehouse. Their objective: a relic even more precious and powerful than the mythic Ark, capable of unlocking secrets beyond human comprehension.
Added by: winnie | Karma: 83.75 | Fiction literature | 21 September 2007
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Robert Asprin - Phule's Company - 4 Books
Meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company--a handful of
military rejects able to do more damage before 9 A.M. than most people
do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule
and his soldiers to a distant planet. But now, the aliens have chosen a
new target of war . . . Phule's Company.
Today, there is a tendency to romanticize both the chivalric era and
the early years of the European state system as more humane times,
when soldiers were governed by codes of honor and civilians were not
targeted for wanton destruction...
