New York: Bantam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - A novel by the author of 'Close Pursuit' and the author's fifth book. A story of a First Sergeant, a 49 year-old military lifer, in the famed Big Red One Infantry division, the grueling training in the Mohave desert, the call to the Gulf, and especially the fact that underneath "the mask of high tech marvels [are] the grunts who must take and hold ground as they always have: with blood and bravery." Glossary. 325 pp. ISBN: 9780553095524.