""It won't matter if you win or lose. You'll lose no matter what." Del delivered the threat in a low voice, his drawl somehow lessening the impact of it. "Then I might as well win," Sam said." Set during US Special Forces operations in the early 1990s, "All Kinds of Sad" is a story of love and lust, self-deception and self-discovery. Sam, an eighteen-year-old US Army Ranger, has dreamed of going into combat all his life. As a newly minted elite soldier, he's finally getting his chance in Africa. He needs to stay focused on that, not on his attraction to Del, a Special Forces soldier twelve years his senior. It won't be easy, because Del is everything he wants to be-and everything he ever wanted. But Sam's dreams may not survive his next mission. A young Ranger has caught Del's eye. He doesn't feel anything for Sam. He just wants the kid to live long enough to tell him that what had happened between them was a one-time thing. But everything went wrong. Now Del's life is falling apart. And he can't get Sam out of his mind. Author's web site: www.cmirvine.com