TAKING FIRE by Lindsay McKenna: Guest Post

Posted February 3, 2015 in Extras, Giveaway / 3 Comments

TAKING FIRE by Lindsay McKenna: Guest Post

I am honored to welcome award-winning author, Lindsay McKenna to my blog as she talks about the outfits of female United States Marine Corps in TAKING FIRE. Enjoy this rare look behind the scenes!

 

Female Marine 1

Although Sergeant Khat Shinwari is not on the cover of Taking Fire, what she wears is important.  She would be wearing desert colored Marine Corps cammies and a blouse of the same color and design.  She would use the Marine “woodland” design uniform because she was up in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan.  She would blend into the surrounding brush and pine trees that litter the rocky slopes.

 When Khat went out on a mission to ambush the Taliban, she would ride her black Arabian mare, Mina, to the area. She would then tie her to a tree or bush to keep her hidden and safe from any resulting gunfire.

 Khat would wear an olive green t-shirt beneath her Kevlar Level 2 vest.  That vest would have large pockets in it.  One would hold a satellite (sat) phone.  She would have two or three pockets filled with magazines for her sniper rifle, a Win-Mag .300.  She would be weighted down with roughly thirty pounds of gear as she climbed a forested slope, looking for a hide to set up in order to ambush Taliban on another goat path down below her.

Female Marine 3

Normally, she’d wear a utility cap, a soft cover.  It would be rare for her to wear a helmet unless she was out on a nightmission where she had to lock in and slide a pair of NVG’s (night vision goggles).  She wouldn’t like the weight of the helmet (a good ten pounds weighing down on her) unless she really had to use it.  She would carry the helmet and NVG’s in her mare’s large, leather saddlebags behind the saddle she rode.

 If she were back at her cave where it was marginally safe, she would wear an olive green t-shirt and her cammo pants, plus her desert colored boots.

 

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Taking Fire by Lindsay McKenna

 

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 24, 2015

 

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She dances on the edge of life…and death

 Not all are meant to walk in the light. Marine Corps Sergeant Khat Shinwari lives among the shadows of the rocky Afghani hills, a Shadow Warrior by name and by nature. She works alone, undercover and undetected—until a small team of US Navy SEALs are set upon by the Taliban…and Khat is forced to disobey orders to save their lives.

 To go rogue.

 Now, hidden deep in the hills with injured SEAL Michael Tarik in her care, Khat learns that he’s more than just a soldier. In him, she sees something of herself and of what she could be. Now duty faces off against the raw, overwhelming attraction she has for Mike. And she must decide between the safety of the shadows…and risking everything by stepping into the light.

 

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About Lindsay McKenna

Lindsay McKenna lives her life as a risk taker, and it shines through the books she loves to write: romance, adventure and suspense. She started writing at age thirteen and continues to hone her writing skills to this day. She sold her first romance novel in 1981. The rest is history.
Because she went into the military, this experience became the backbone of her writing—she is credited with writing the first military romance novel (Captive of Fate, 1983, Silhouette Special Edition) and has created a thriving sub-genre within the romance field! As a New York Times Best Selling author, she has sold 23 million books and in 32 foreign languages in her career thus far. Her many experiences in the U.S. Navy are backdrop for her understanding of the military in general, and also her very successful Morgan’s Mercenaries, which is an ongoing series in Silhouette to this day! Forty-five books strong!
Lindsay has gone Indie in 2015 and has created a new family saga on par with Morgan’s Mercenaries It is known as the DELOS SERIES. There will be paperback and eBooks created under Blue Turtle Publishing, her company for her fans. Readers who love Morgan and his family are bound to fall in love with the Culver family. Delos is romantic suspense, which Lindsay is well known for. It took her five years to create and bring DELOS to her readers. It was worth the wait, but we’ll let you decide that.
Lindsay loves to hear from her readers and loves to know what they’d like to see her write next. Stay up with the latest on the Delos Series here. Please visit her Web site at www.lindsaymckenna.com. And be sure to sign up for her free quarterly newsletter. It contains exclusive content found nowhere else on the Net. Plus, giveaways and other surprises, to her loyal and faithful subscribers!


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