Come Now the Angels

Book excerpt: Jesse McGowan kills to stay alive. When his country needed men, Jess joined the Marines to give America his best. As gunner, he knows the gun team is the heart of the battle, with lives saved or lost by their performance. He accepts this responsibility. Will Jesse be worthy as the team leader? Will his gun team prove worthy? Will he return home alive or arrive in a casket? Tweet works as a nurse to save American lives in her war-torn country. She believes in democracy. Now, with no one to protect her or her child, she must find a way to get to Saigon. Once there, she must secure a boat out of Vietnam before the North Vietnamese Communists invade. For helping Americans, Tweet and her young daughter will likely be placed in a re-education camp and face probable death. Will they make it out of Da Nang? Can she secure passage and keep her daughter alive? A story of love, death, and war, this novel is filled with emotion and turmoil. Buy this book and meet the gun team, their families, and loves that give these Marines the courage to fight for another day.