It’s been over 3 years but I still think about how Skeppy wanted Bad to send him a lock of his hair so he could frame it
If Skep brushed Bad’s hair he would keep the strands that fell out methinks
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Beach Head by Ensan Case
Beach Head is Ensan Case's (author of Wingmen) second novel. It was published in 1983 and has been out of print ever since, so I decided to digitize it to share with my fellow Wingmen fans.
There are some notable similarities between Beach Head and Wingmen, like their structure, the World War II setting and the realistic and slow burn style. However, the (mostly investigative) latter half of Beach Head takes place in the 1960s, and the story has American and Japanese characters. The plot is also much more complex, and there's also much more explicit violence. And while it doesn’t center its narrative around a gay romance like Wingmen, Beach Head has LGBT characters as well.
You can download Beach Head here.
If the link isn't working, or if you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to contact me!
For those who want to know a little more about the novel's plot, here's the (spoiler-ish!) back cover synopsis:
The sand and water were stained red, the beach littered with the bodies of young Marines he had just met. The screams of the wounded and dying rose above the sound of the gunfire.
It wasn't what Carl Randall expected when he left his job on the society pages to become the war correspondent for his father's San Francisco newspaper. When he left the smouldering ruins of Pearl Harbor, he still expected his role to be drinking and storytelling. Randall never imagined that the end of the war would find him stranded on a deserted Pacific island… or the key to a secret the government would never want revealed!
The nightmare of the war stayed with Randall. A generation after the Japanese surrender, it was about to become reality… again!
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Wingmen Summary:
Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. While a beautiful widow pursues Jack, and another pilot becomes suspicious of Jack and Fred's close friendship, the two heroes cut a fiery swath through the skies from Wake Island to Tarawa to Truk, there to keep a fateful rendezvous with love and death in the blood-clouded waters of the Pacific.
The Song of Achilles Summary:
Retelling of the Illiad, focusing on the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus
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i am such a respectable person for not insulting my mother :3 i am so reasonable & kind & lenient :33c I Hope She Suffers Tho
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First, the 1979 Avon version went out of print. Then, the 2012 Cheyenne Publishing version went out of print. Then, the 2014 Lethe Press version went out of print. Seriously, it seems like this book is cursed to never stay consistently in print or something. It sucks
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feel sick when i dont eat feel sick when i eat. does it end?
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IM NOT BREATHING ROMAN IS GOING INSANE
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I‘m amazed that Beach Head is still cheap while Wingmen is nonexistent. Here’s to hoping Case will republish? 😢
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yes you could say I've been watching 'the bear'
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fuck me how many fans does a character get on their birthday . is it twice the usual amount?
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