Mon 20 Aug 2007
Although Al Hubin has cast a very wide net in putting together Crime Fiction IV, he still hasn’t caught everything. Once in a while I come across a book that seems crime-related enough that it ought to be included, and it isn’t, or not yet.
The latest of these rare instances is the following author and title, which will appear shortly in Part 18 of the Addenda to the Revised edition of CFIV:
PADDEN, IAN.
Guerrilla Game. Bantam, pbo, June 1987.
From the front cover:
“In the California desert, one man wages a fierce war for more than survival … justice.”
From the back cover:
IT STARTED AS A WAR GAME …
on a mock battlefield in the California desert — until the “enemy” started firing live ammunition and a young trainee wound up dead,
IT ENDED IN MURDER.
Captain Ronald Cochrane of U.S. Special Forces knew the attack wasn’t an accident. Alone, he was going back to the desert to prove that Carl Nathan was murdered in cold blood … even if he had to risk a court martial to do it. What Cochrane didn’t know was that he was already a man marked for death … the target of a powerful military underworld and a corrupt superior who was setting him up for the ultimate double-cross.
NOW IT WAS A ONE MAN WAR.
For Cochrane, the game was over and the real war is about to begin. And he will need every commando trick in the book to survive …
GUERRILLA GAME.
Ian Padden is also the author of a series of non-fiction “The Fighting Elite” books on the military. One of these is shown, The Fighting Elite: U.S. Airborne: From Boot Camp to the Battle Zones:
August 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Yes, This is the real Ian Padden, … I don’t know where you picked up the ‘Dunbar’. Would you quietly drop it, please? I am still doing the occasional writing but under a different name. I was surprised, and pleased, when I saw your page! If I can give you any more information just let me know. Thanks again!
Ian
October 1st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Ian
I’ve made the changes, now that I’ve heard from you again to make the information definitive.
(Deleted from the post above are references to an incorrect year of birth and Ian’s non-existent middle name.)
— Steve
July 17th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Hi Ian, do you remember me, we worked together at Oxy Qatar. Been wondering what you’re up to, I’m still here at Oxy, are you still with Oxy?
Drop me a line and let me know what you’re doing and where you are,
Regards, Paul.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
And why are we excising the middle name?
November 4th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Hi Ian,
I was just reminiscing about our little adventure in Egypt and decided to google. Nice to see you’re still kickin’. You still flying that little Pitts?
Regards,
Charlie
April 8th, 2015 at 2:33 am
just got a set of your books Ian from a charity shop here in England and am amazed to find they are your parents copies all signed to them by you 🙂