title: The Chief and His Marine
author: B a Sherman
description: <i>The Chief and His Marine</i>crafts some real dilemmas and asks many hard questions, and making top reading for military novel enthusiasts looking for more overall philosophical and psychological depth than most such writings offer. <b>-Midwest Reviews</b>
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  These days Mansel Shale drove the Jaguar himself owing to the quick death not
  long ago of his most recent chauffeur and bodyguard, Denzil Lake. Denz was
  found with the barrels of two Astra .38 pistols in his mouth. Both guns had
  been fired. Manse thought Denz deserved this. He did not replace him. Once
  you’d discovered a very trusted staff member secretly snuggling up to your
  enemies, you worried about giving somebody that kind of close job again. There
  had definitely been good aspects to Denz. Well, obviously, or would Manse have
  hired him and kept him on? All right, Denzil had sometimes refused to wear the
  special driver’s navy blue peaked cap particularly bought for him by Manse,
  but Shale never went into a full rage over this. Denz probably thought the cap
  made him look like a flunkey subordinate. He _was_ a fucking flunkey
  subordinate but Shale could understand why a man might not want this
  signposted. Manse put up with the bolshiness. Betrayal was different. Anyo