The Fighting Man #6

In the Korean War, Captain Lynn Rodgers leads Easy Company against heavily fortified enemy positions known as the Bloody Fingers—a series of ridges the troops must capture at any cost. As Pvt. Mike Gonzales, Sgt. Bill Bonner, Lt. Todd Hunt, and their comrades push forward through brutal combat, they face overwhelming resistance, mines, and impossible choices that test the limits of their courage and conscience. When a critical scout mission falls to Gonzales, his actions may determine whether the final assault on the last ridge succeeds or fails.

Lieutenant Smithers is an expert defuser of booby traps, and he's sent to a Korean village to neutralize hidden explosives so the troops can safely occupy the buildings—but the enemy has set ingenious snares designed to prey on a soldier's natural curiosity, from captured magazines rigged to a thermos that may or may not contain a bomb. With steady nerves and painstaking care, Smithers must outsmart the cunning traps one by one before the men can claim the shelter they desperately need.

Brigadier General James Parnell faces an agonizing choice when his regiment takes murderous casualties holding a vital line in Korea—trapped between military necessity and his conscience as a commander. When General Beard refuses permission to withdraw, Parnell must grapple with what it means to order men to their likely deaths, a burden that becomes even more personal when he discovers his own son is among those in the line of fire. His struggle between professional duty and human feeling plays out across the frozen battlefield as he joins his men in the fight.

Captain Noel, a hotshot jet pilot, reluctantly agrees to fly in a slow artillery-spotting plane to locate hidden enemy flak batteries over Korea—a far cry from the sleek Sabres he's used to. When the mission draws intense enemy fire, Noel must use his wits and the little plane's unexpected advantages to survive an escalating aerial gauntlet. A tense Korean War tale where the underdog aircraft and its confident pilot prove that sometimes the smallest bird can outmaneuver the fiercest predators.