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10/20/2015 0 Comments

The Accidental Spy

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Nick Andrews hasn't killed yet.

He carries one of the finest infantry rifles ever made, an M1 Garand.

He's on the high ground in a target-rich environment.

But he can't pull the trigger. 

One shot, he knows, just one would unleash all hell on him.
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The Chinese Communist Army that swarms the roads in the valleys below know he's there. However they have a mission and it doesn't include chasing around the Korean mountains after stragglers, especially those who don't annoy them. Sooner or later they expect him to die of the cold or starvation, or simply wander down and surrender. That's what so many other American stragglers have done since the Chinese invaded across the Yalu River and defeated the Eighth Army and their UN allies.

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