The Sergeant Mass Market Paperback 1968 by Dennis Murphy Book

This listing is for The Sergeant Mass Market Paperback 1968 by Dennis Murphy.  
Mass Market Paperback: 158 pages
Publisher: McFadden; First Mcfadden Edition edition (1968)
A graphic, unflinching novel about a shadow world within the U.S. Army. Rod Steiger immortalized the complex, conflicted character of the 'The Sergeant' in the 1968 movie of the same name by Dennis Murphy, a California novelist and screenwriter who inherited his friend John Steinbeck's gift for realism and psychology in depicting otherwise ordinary people under extraordinary pressure from their flaws and compulsions and crises of their own making. Murphy was the son of John Murphy, Steinbeck's boyhood pal in Salinas and, as revealed by letters from the older author to the younger writer and his father, in many ways Steinbeck's literary heir. Unfortunately it was an inheritance squandered by success in Hollywood, where Murphy made money in movies despite Steinbeck's caution about the traps waiting for talent, like Mur