The script came before the book so unsurprisingly it's faithful. It reads like a novelisation of a script - there's little internal stuff although a descent down a mountain early on has a Navarone vibe. The relationship between the women and Smith and Schaeffer is more fleshed out. So too are the characterisations of the traitorous soldiers (they also die differently and have different names).
It remains a cracking yarn but it is a novelisation more than a novel.
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