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    By John Simpson

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    Enter the world of men who wear badges and uniforms, everyday heroes who go home every night and dream the same dreams as every other man. They yearn for someone to love, someone to share their beds, a lover, or maybe even a partner for life. Follow these men in a collection of stories about what can happen when sparks fly between perfect strangers and old friends. Fraternization has never been so hot.

    Stories included:

    The Last Place

    Medic One

    Officers in Need*

    Peach Fuzz and Whiskers

    Military Service

    Uniform Hardness*

    Borders of Love

    The SAC

    Age Is But a Number*

    Marshal Service

    Secrets

    *The three Officers in Need stories were previously released by Dreamspinner Press as stand alone short stories in ebook format.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateJun 6, 2011
    ISBN9781615819553
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    John Simpson

    John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including five volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People , A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man's Land and Not Quite World's End and a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World. The Wars Against Saddam, his account of the West's relationship with Iraq and his two decades reporting on that relationship encompassing two Gulf Wars and the fall of Saddam Hussein, and Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported are also published by Pan Macmillan. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.

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