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"EVERY MAN THINKS MEANLY OF HIMSELF
FOR NOT HAVING BEEN A SOLDIER." |
| SAMUEL JOHNSON 1778 |
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“Got the name? Play the game,” jokes Frank Warz, an underemployed, working-class college grad in 1970s Detroit who passed up the Vietnam War for school and who lies he’s a decorated ex-Marine. Disillusioned and bitter, his personal problems out of control, he decides on the Foreign Legion for classic refuge and fulfillment. But it rejects him.
Unable to go home, he follows the Legion to Djibouti to earn credentials as a combat photographer. Only now he masquerades as a veteran “shooter,” too. Meanwhile, events and people assault his cynicism. Until a Legion deserter takes him to a racially charged baptism of fire whose moral challenges Warz can't evade any longer.
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