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    Minor Detail

    By Jack Sharkey

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    General Webb had a simply magnificent idea for getting ground forces into the enemy's territory despite rockets and missiles and things like that. It was a grand scheme, except for one minor detail.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateOct 23, 2013
    ISBN9781627935142
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      Minor Detail - Jack Sharkey

      Minor Detail

      By Jack Sharkey

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2013 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2013

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-62793-514-2

      The Secretary of Defense, flown in by special plane from the new Capitol Building in Denver, trotted down the ramp with his right hand outstretched before him.

      At the base of the ramp his hand was touched, clutched and hidden by the right hand of General Smiley Webb in a hearty parody of a casual handshake. General Webb did everything in a big way, and

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