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Chino & Homeboy in: The Military Chronicles - Book 3 - Stateside
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $11.99
Publisher: Malditos Carajos
Published: May 19 2025
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Military Chronicles
Book 3 - Stateside
When the battlefield goes quiet, the mind does not.
And the wounds you can't see-those are the ones that take the longest to stop bleeding.
The Military Chronicles: Book Three cuts deeper than ever before. This is not just the story of Marines under fire. This is the story of who they become when the noise dies down and there's nothing left but memory, muscle, and what's still broken inside.
Homeboy returns stateside, but sleep brings no rest. Every sound becomes a trigger. Every shadow, a flashback. For Chino, the battlefield is now the home front-supporting a brother-in-arms through the dark spiral of PTSD while carrying his own silent scars. Together, they navigate the razor-thin edge between healing and hiding.
And when a new sniper platoon forms-complete with fresh faces, bruised egos, and buried secrets-Homeboy is handed the burden of leadership. Chino remains by his side, not as a spotter, but as a constant reminder of what true brotherhood means. What follows is a trial by fire both in the field and within: hard lessons in mentorship, discipline, and the weight of command.
Across these pages, you'll witness:
- Raw portrayals of PTSD, survivor's guilt, and the invisible wounds of war
- A new sniper platoon forged through friction, trust, and leadership under pressure
- The slow-burn bond between Marines from different walks of life
- Training missions that feel just as dangerous as combat-because sometimes they are
- A deepening relationship between Chino and Miller, complicated by trauma and truth
Told with an unwavering gaze and a heartbeat of brutal honesty, Stateside is a study in precision-of action, of character, of pain. The title says it all. This volume doesn't explode; it dissects.
It's about learning to sleep again.
To breathe again.
To live again.
For readers of Redeployment, The Yellow Birds, and Thank You for Your Service, this is a military novel that goes beyond operations and into the soul.
This is the war that follows you home.
This is the quiet between shots.
This is Stateside.
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