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NAKED BETWEEN ARMIES: A Literary War Thriller of Soldiers, Legend, and Survival in the Guatemalan Civil War

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NAKED BETWEEN ARMIES: A Literary War Thriller of Soldiers, Legend, and Survival in the Guatemalan Civil War

Written by: Craig W Van Sickle
Narrated by: Craig W. Van Sickle
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Some ghosts wear boots. Some just whistle.Guatemala, 1977. Private Diego Morales didn't volunteer for the jungle — nobody in Second Platoon did. But the Petén doesn't care whose idea it was. It swallows roads, swallows silence, and, if the old stories are true, it sends something ahead of the killing to let you know your name has already been chosen.As civil war tightens its grip on the highlands and villages start disappearing between one patrol and the next, Diego and the men around him are pulled deeper into a conflict that has stopped answering to orders from either side. Somewhere out past the last checkpoint, a sound moves through the trees before the violence does — a whistle the local families have feared for generations, and one that soldiers are learning, too late, not to dismiss as superstition.Naked Between Armies is a literary war thriller that follows a platoon, a village, and the folklore that outlives them both, tracing how ordinary men become instruments of a war that will still be extracting its cost twenty years after the last shot is fired. Rooted in the real history of Guatemala's civil war and threaded with the legend of El Silbón, it is a novel about what soldiers carry, what jungles keep, and what never really leaves.For readers of literary war fiction, magical realism, and stories where history and folklore refuse to stay separate.©2026 Craig W. Van Sickle (P)2026 Craig W. Van Sickle Genre Fiction Historical Military Thriller & Suspense War & Military
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