Outrage: Author's Preferred Edition

In 1982-83, American Marines were stationed in Beirut with a vaguely defined mission to keep the peace. But once the PLO was evacuated and a new Lebanese president elected, Moslem terrorists assassinated President Gemayel and relentlessly pressed their guerrilla war, forcing the Marines to stay in "The Root" and to participate in an increasingly tense and dangerous mission.

Written and now revised by a retired Marine Corps captain who served in Beirut, this brutal, fast-moving novel about t...