‘The Beast?’

Let Them Look West by Marty Phillips: June 3, G-String, New Jersey Jackalope Hill, 2021, 258 pages

A man named Marcus Mickus lent this book to me for travel reading while at a combat event in Pennsylvania. Ten days later the book is read, 140 pages of it yesterday. The reading is pleasant, the writing style brief enough to present most of the story in dialogue without becoming overwrought.

Let Them Look West follows the fateful path of an unremarkabl…