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In no time she is sold to the highest bidder and taken on a ship along with other women destined for slavery. A special forces mission behind enemy lines paperback august 6, 20. Captain david blakeley was secondincommand of the elite pathfinder platoon and fought in the iraq war in 2003 and in afghanistan after 911. David blakely was entered in the sports car race in his emperorhrg. All the signs point to murder, and the agent believes this is part of something much bigger. After confessing she is running from the law, he drops her off in port galveston. And like their counterparts in hereford, the job of the pathfinders is to operate unseen and undetected deep behind enemy lines. Okeefe, pam godwin, nina levine, dima zales, bella lovewins.

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The account and events are incredible, and written in a candid straightforward way. I joined the regiment with david blakeley and served alongside him in kosovo and iraq. The book jumps about a little in the first few chapters, in some books i find this quite annoying but strangely in this book it works well and leaves you on the edge of the seat, wanting. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read pathfinder. It was an awesome book and gave a very good insight to pathfinder regiment.

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