Devil's Guard Afghanistan by Eric Meyer

Devil's Guard Afghanistan by Eric Meyer

The sixth and final book in Eric Meyer's acclaimed new series on the REAL story behind the S in Vietnam.

The war in Vietnam is over. Yet the descendants of those who fought there are pulled into a new war. A war in a country whose name has come to mean unending conflict, unending brutality, and unending killing. Afghanistan. Into this tortured land flies the civilian pilot Max Hoffman. Out of luck and out of money, he is easy prey to the CIA who recruit him to join their hidden war. Hoffman soon discovers the American intelligence officers have a hidden agenda - personal gain and profit at any cost. And they have no qualms about who gets sacrificed in pursuit of their ruthless aims.

Yet they discover that Hoffman is no pushover. His ancestor was the leader of the famed Vietnam fighters, the Devil's Guard. And Max discovers he too has a talent for warfare that makes him every bit as devious and deadly as the enemy. Hoffman discovers he has entered the shadow war, a war where death can come at the hand of friend or enemy alike.

This is a story about a struggle that sucks in men, both military and civilian, and spits them out as battle hardened veterans. Or corpses. It is the story of bitter, bloody fighting, of the struggle to survive in the cauldron of Afghanistan. A story of both regular soldiers, and private contractors. For these are the killers-for-hire once known as mercenaries. The Devil's Guard has returned.

Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is a known specialist in HTML, CSS, and web standards around the world. Eric is the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (www.complexspiral.com), which counts among its clients America Online, Apple Computer, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, and Macromedia, which called Eric a vital partner in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a groundbreaking tool for CSS-based design. Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New York Public Library, Cornell University, and the University of Northern Iowa are among the organizations to which he has given talks. Eric has also spoken at a number of conferences, including An Event Apart (which he cofounded), the IW3C2 WWW series, Web Design World, CMP, SXSW, the User Interface conference series, and The Other Dreamweaver Conference. In his spare time, Eric serves as List Chaperone of the extremely popular css-discuss mailing list (www.css-discuss.org). Eric resides in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a far nicer city than you might think. Eric Meyer's personal web page may be found at http: //www.meyerweb.com/eric. He was the host of -Your Father's Oldsmobile, - a Big Band-era radio show aired weekly on WRUW 91.1 FM in Cleveland for nine years.