Game On! The Nicaraguan War Chronicles Book 1

Game On! takes the reader deep inside covert combat missions as seen through the eyes of Rob van Duis, a member of Strike Team Bravo and former Vietnam vet. This journal is based on true events that transpired while he was a soldier in Nicaragua fighting against the Communist Sandinista rebels.

The story begins with Bravo Team’s clandestine arrival into Nicaragua. Van Duis and his teammates hit the ground running as they battle Sandinista rebels deep in enemy territory. His team’s first-full scale battle is to purge a peaceful countryside villa of the armed combatants that have besieged it. After a vicious door-to-door fight to clear the villa’s dwellings of rebels, it takes all the firepower available to defeat the horde of insurgents, who have taken innocent villagers hostage.

On another mission as a solo strike team, Bravo is inserted into a rebel-infested area to neutralize a weapons supply depot, but as happenstance would have it they are faced by an enemy force double the size they anticipated. The hazardous assignment takes yet another unforeseen turn; as van Duis and team flee to the exfiltration point, they are faced with taking an injured young peasant girl to safety with armed Sandinistas on their heels.

Van Duis provides an insider’s look at the trauma of warfare’s brutality. Each mission is depicted with the intensity that only a real participant can portray. Even as a trained and experienced warrior, in the face of hideous combat he is affected by what he witnesses; the catastrophic aftermath to the civilians caught in the chaos of war.