Barbara Allen

Front Toward Enemy (eBook, ePUB)

A Slain Soldier's Widow Details Her Husband's Murder and How Military Courts Allowed the Killer to Escape Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A slain soldier's widow details her husband's murder by a fellow soldier... and exposes how the US military courts allowed the killer to escape justice. June 7, 2005. A sandstorm obscured what light lingered in Iraq's nighttime sky as Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez tied a claymore mine to a window grate. On the other side of the window was Lieutenant Louis Allen, a husband and father of four young boys, and his good friend and Commanding Officer Captain Phillip Esposito, a West Point graduate and father of a baby girl. The men were engaged in a board game, unwinding after a hard day, when without warning the window exploded. More than seven hundred steel ball bearings erupted from the mine and hurtled inward with lethal force, obliterating everything in their kill zone. Martinez was arrested and tried for the murders. But the military judicial system failed, and the killer was set free. How can American soldiers be at risk on their own base, among their fellow soldiers? Could these murders have been prevented? Will it happen again? How can the military's judicial system have failed so drastically? What was the government hiding from the slain soldiers' families? This book is a personal and factual behind-the-scenes account of a case that is to the military judicial system what the O.J. Simpson case is to the civilian judicial system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Morgan James Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781600378904
• Artikelnr.: 38409103

Autorenporträt

Joy Falls is Barbara Allen's first novel. If she were given money for all the times this novel was a runner-up, she would be rich. She received an MFA from the University of Arizona in poetry. Her poetry has been published in literary journals, Ploughshares, New England Review, Seattle Review, and Fine Madness. She has received an Arizona Commission of the Arts fellowship and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
June 8, 2005 Chapter 2
Nine Months Before the Doorbell Rang Chapter 3
Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez Chapter 4
Military Honors Chapter 5
From Mrs. To Ms Chapter 6
Learning to Navigate the Military Judicial System Chapter 7
Kuwait Chapter 8
Life Without Lou Chapter 9
The New Year Chapter 10
A Bumpy New Life and The Flat Tires of Justice Chapter 11
Creeping to Trial Chapter 12
Voir Dire Chapter 13
Prosecution’s Case Chapter 14
Defense’s Case Chapter 15
The Verdict Chapter 16
The Aftermath