" Bitter Creek is likely the top of the Du Pr series .
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First, however, Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussaint Saloon.
John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq, to accept the Navy Cross.
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Lively and absolutely fascinating" (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall ). . . " Bitter Creek is likely the top of the Du Pr series