J Scott Payne

Chosun J Scott Payne

Sergeant Charlie Riegle is disgusted that 8th Army in Japan is little more than a sexreation program. Commanders order the force to shape up, but it's still ill-prepared when called upon to blunt the murderous communist invasion of South Korea. As a veteran infantry NCO, Riegle helps poorly armed and heavily outnumbered GIs defend the Pusan Perimeter. Later, he leads reconnaissance missions into North Korea and its Siberian winter. He earns a battlefield commission as masses of Chinese "volunteers" enter the war and combat sweeps south, then north and back again in that tortured peninsula.