War Women

This is another great addition to the Sueno and Bascom series. This one involves sexual assault on female soldiers in the 8th Army and blackmail by North Korean agents. It is packed with action and runs at a rapid pace. The Kate Worthington Boyd character is not one I care for, but the book is a ver......more

Strange is missing - he never reported for work and noone knows where he is. That can be bad enough on its own but when the missing soldier is one with access to all classified documents, things can be really bad. Welcome back to South Korea and the American Army's compounds in the country in the 19......more

The Korean War just does not get the respect it deserves, whether called a police action by some and actual war by others. If it weren’t for the film/TV Show “M*A*S*H*,” there would probably be no love at all for this war, especially in comparison with World War II and Viet Nam. For this reason, amon......more

I've been a fan of Martin Limon's series featuring Army sergeants George Sueno and Ernie Bascom since the pair's first appearance in Jade Lady Burning. The series is set in the South Korea of the 1970's and Sueno and Bascom are agents of the Army's CID, or Criminal Investigation Division. Through th......more

I read Martin Limon's Jade Lady Burning about a decade ago, and was delighted to find War Women while browsing on Libby. The shortest possible assessment of War Women, in my view, is that it is better at framing a story than at telling it. The reason becomes clear from this article that Limon wrote.......more