The Liberty Corps

by Mark K. Roberts

Men with pasts make the best soldiers for hire. They hit harder, shoot faster, and aren't afraid to die. Now on an island in the North Atlantic, fifteen hundred guys from all over the world, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0445204761
• ISBN13: 9780445204768
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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As the 1st in a series, this book gives us a lot of backstory. That backstory makes for an interesting read. When the President decides to form an "American Foreign Legion", the US military is amused and the Russian are afraid. This book tells how the Liberty Corps is formed in spite of those reactions. The beauty of the story is that rather than focus on one character to weave his story around, Roberts follows several enlistees through the process. We get a womanizing Army regular whose punishment for an affair with a General's wife is a position with the Legion, an undercover reporter sent to do an expose'of the legion, a Mafia soldier hiding from a NY Don and various other characters. The novel mostly covers their plight in the newly formed Legion. The actual mission does not occur until the very end. As an origin story, it does quite well with more characterization than the usual series entries.