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- Synopsis
- Army cop Erik Rider prefers his war simple . . . and confined to Saigon. So he's less than thrilled at getting sent undercover to a tiny American outpost in the most remote highland province in Vietnam, whose sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople badly want all Vietnamese gone from their ancient mountains.Rider's orders are to take down a drug-smuggling operation that's filling enemy coffers. The brass wants the cash flow cut. Things get complicated. Main force enemy battalions gather in the hills like storm clouds, rehearsing their next assault and biding their time playing volleyball. Corrupt South Vietnamese hoard rice and military equipment to sell on the black market. Civilians go hungry. Mistreated troops sit idle, their payrolls skimmed. Supplies vanish, then people.The local spook wants the province chief dealt with. Easy enough, you would think, in a combat zone. But nobody is playing nice--by the rules of war or anything else. The more Rider struggles against it, the deeper and deadlier the intrigue gets.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780547564494
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780547840239
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Date of Addition:
- 06/12/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Juris Jurjevics
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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