Publisher's Synopsis
NOMAD "Tell my people my name is China. If I don't make it, Nomad-tell my people my name is China." From NOMAD, @2017, Mike Tucker Call him Nomad. In the snow and ice of North China in the winter of 1938, on the most grueling and perilous mission of his life, an American mercenary fights against seemingly-impossible odds, shoulder-to-shoulder in the heart of the Chinese Revolution with Long March veterans carrying submachine guns and grenades and their dreams. A stunning tribute to the Chinese guerrilla fighters and revolutionaries who fought a brutal, no-holds-barred guerrilla war up north during the Chinese Revolution, NOMAD could not be more urgent, raw and compelling-the scintillating tale of an American mercenary at war in North China, whose journey in the Chinese Revolution later inspires clandestine mercenaries in our time to fight the good fight, come what may. A searing meditation on justice, war and survival, NOMAD is an authentic, thrilling and moving novel by the only writer in our time compared to Hemingway-Mike Tucker. "NOMAD is dedicated to the farmers and fishermen and people of North China who were the soul of the Chinese Revolution up north and who remain the soul of North China in our time. May you, and all of China, live in peace forever. And NOMAD is also dedicated in memory of Lieutenant Colonel Archimedes L.A. Patti, United States Army (1913-1998), Office of Strategic Services, China and General Huang Hua (1911-1943), Red Army, Chinese revolutionary, brilliant guerrilla war commander and Long March veteran." Mike Tucker North China April 12, 2017 PRAISE FOR MIKE TUCKER "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker's prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker's short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent, THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk "If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker's vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, THE LONG PATROL, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds, and simply battling against the elements. Outstanding." Jim Algie, Editor, author and journalist. Untamed Travel. "Tucker's characters are unforgettable and he develops them all through their insightful and down-to-earth dialogues [in 1931]." Karen Pirnot, Readers Favorite, www.barnesandnoble.com "In HELL IS OVER, Mike Tucker tells a story that we should know but would not, except for his courage." Senator Bob Kerrey "A classic on deep reconnaissance, Mike Tucker's THE LONG PATROL should be required reading at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School." Colonel Kirk Windmueller, US Army Special Forces