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Life is like baseball" young paratrooper Phillip Dee was told in the S.R. Doss novel Blood on the Risers. "Sometimes you get a hit, sometimes the ball rolls foul. It's a game of inches." It is on the eve of the Vietnam War that Dee is led to realize life is indeed, like baseball, a matter of chance.Now, in A Game of Inches, a novel set years later, Doss shows the reader how Dee himself becomes who he is by chance. In a three-part story he is s...

Blood on the Risers is a song paratroopers sing about a comrade who is killed when his parachute does not open properly, risers being the shroud lines running from the harness up to the canopy. The song is gory, and usually sung over many drinks.In this novel, Phillip Dee, a young lieutenant reporting to an airborne unit in Germany on the eve of the Vietnam War, is shocked to see four troopers plummet to earth with their canopies tangled, thei...