Overview

It is two years since the fall of Kabul and Clayton Dorn, now living comfortably in the woods of Northern Virginia, does the occasional consulting work but spends most days watching the wind stir in the maple trees outside his home and grousing over America's failed Afghan experiment. There are memories of Saarah, too, and the feelings for her that he can't seem to kick. Late one afternoon, Dennis Foerstel, a fellow operator from their Iraq War days, mysteriously appears at Clayton's front door. West Point grad, special forces vet, groomed at the War College and now the CIA's version of a Swiss army knife, Dennis is heading back to Afghanistan on a top secret mission and wants Clayton to join him. To do what, Clayton wonders while listening to Dennis' pitch. What 20 years and $2 trillion had failed to accomplish? Declining Foerstel's invite, Clayton grows soon curious and unearths some startling intel. Afghanistan is sitting on one of the world's largest known reserves of lithium ore. Digging deeper, he also learns that the great powers are locked in a covert, Cold War like battle over this trillion dollar resource, attempting to control it, or doing their best to make sure that no one else does. Thus begins another roller coaster ride in the Afghan's Lipstick Warriors' series, with all the familiar faces from the first two books onboard for Foerstel's mission. Their ostensible assignment, help the resistance break out of the Panjshir Valley. There's only one problem. Foerstel has gone seriously off the reservation and soon drags the entire operation off the rails along with him. As Foerstel's adventure spirals ever further out of control, Clayton finds himself drawn back into Afghanistan, tasked with both rescuing his besieged friends and solving the fate of Saarah's missing brother. From the highest perches of American power to the lowliest Afghan villager and every blood thirsty warlord in between, Afghan's Lipstick Warriors: The Deadly Sins takes the reader on another rollicking good ride, with America's most honorable impulses and her most damning failures on a collision course from beginning to end.

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Disclosure. Having read the first two installments of the Lipstick Warriors series, I was already familiar with the many ongoing characters and would encourage any prospective reader to do the same. That said, the author has done a masterful job of weaving old and new characters into a whirlwind plot that is coherent, riveting and can serve as a standalone story. As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I found the depiction of life under Taliban rule well researched, realistic and thoroughly engrossing. Ditto the proxy war over Afghanistan's natural resources at the heart of this tale, where the sorry fate of Afghan women serves as a tragic and heartbreaking backdrop. Chris Van Niekirk-South African Special Operations-Retired

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The product of an Irish/Italian family, Mr. Corcoran was transplanted from the clapboard New England of his youth to the cookie cutter, stucco subdivisions that increasingly littered the old ranches and disappearing orange groves south of Los Angeles in the 1960s. Ever rebellious, and true to the folk music/coffee house idealism that helped shape his early worldview, he chose to resist the Vietnam War, was a man without a country for several years and can count incarceration in a Mexican prison as one of his many colorful experiences from that era.Having pursued a love of reading and writing in various forms all his life, Mr. Corcoran finally took that passion seriously around the turn of the millennium and has dedicated the remainder of his days to authorship. In completing the circle of destiny, he has returned to the New England of his youth and presently resides along the Rhode Island shore.

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