Close Combat

by Jack Ehrlich

paperbound

Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1980

About the author

After studying at the University of Denver and graduating from Syracuse University in 1952, he was a reporter at Newsday Inc. from 1955 to 1960, then at the New York Herald Tribune . He resumed his law studies at the Brooklyn Law School until 1962 before becoming a lawyer. He then successively served as chief prosecutor, district attorney and investigator for Suffolk County in New York State .

Beginning in 1958, he published eight detective novels, four of which featured probation officer Robert W. Flick 2 He also published four westerns, including A Reverend Among the Cowboys ( The Fastest Gun Is the Pulpit ), adapted for television in 1974.