G.I. Joe #47
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Man on a Tower" features a soldier who reveals to his sergeant a troubled past involving a woman and a man named Carl. The soldier confesses that he was in love with a woman in the service, but Carl held her affection and later threatened him after a bank robbery, forcing the soldier into an impossible situation. After hearing footsteps outside the diner where they're speaking, the soldier's resolve crumbles, and he prepares to flee rather than face the consequences of his past actions.
When Pvt. Randy March breaks out of the hospital and takes refuge atop a water tower, threatening to jump, Sgt. Mulvaney and Pvt. Joe Burch find themselves caught between a desperate young man and Col. Scoville's mounting pressure to bring him down—fast. As negotiations grow more tense and a helicopter hovers nearby, Joe realizes the real crisis isn't just stopping Randy from jumping, but understanding what's driving him to it in the first place.
Cpl. Reilly spots an opportunity when a colonel complains about lacking a car-wash service nearby, so he partners with inventor Merlin Mullin to build an automatic washing machine and open for business—only to have the Colonel declare the establishment off-limits after discovering Reilly once tried to swindle him. With military customers cut off, Reilly and Ugly Otis must adapt their sign and pivot their strategy to survive, leading to a series of misadventures as their new business model attracts an unexpected crowd.
When a tall Army sergeant walks into Linda Carter's diner near Camp Humboldt one fateful night, he's expecting nothing more than a cup of coffee—but a radio bulletin about the escape of dangerous convict Carl Sheedy turns the moment into a nightmare. Linda's past comes crashing back as she realizes the man she once knew is heading straight for her, and she finds herself forced to confess her fear to the stranger in uniform. As Carl arrives at the diner door, Linda and Sgt. Mulvaney must navigate a tense confrontation where her only hope of survival lies in appealing to the one weakness in a desperate criminal's heart.
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