Bootleg Heroes - Peter Daniel Cook

nAt the American Embassy, in Quito, Ecuador, the members of the Marine Security Guard Detachment act as a highly skilled, spit and polish, first line of defense for members of the diplomatic corps. Bootleg Heroes, however, is an after-hours novel that invites the reader to peer behind the curtain. Once the Embassy has closed and the Marines have shed their uniforms, Bootleg Heroes begins.

n nn nOn the eve of the 1980 Reagan/Carter election, Lance Corporal Curtis B. Dark arrives in country. His first Marine House T.G.I.F.

begins at sundown and lasts the entire weekend. Dark's initial ambition to establish himself as a gung-ho, hard charging Marine, quickly gives way to a pressing realization - that he'd rather be a lover than a fighter...n