MIKE Force: A Novel of Vietnam's Central Highlands War

A soldier serving with the MIKE Force in Vietnam wakes up every day knowing it might be his last. You dont run with the indigenous Montagnard strikers expecting to live forever. Thats the nature of the beast that haunts American advisors serving with the tough little highland tribal volunteers in Vietnams misty enemy-infested central highlands. Its tough demanding duty and just the kind of thing that attracts military mavericks like former Peace Corps volunteer Galen St. Cyr who finds empathy and a new mystical identity with the Jarai tribesmen of his MIKE Force unit. He finds himself on the outskirts of the regular U.S. military along with hand-picked American Australian and Vietnamese Special Forces advisors and quickly discovers that duty with Montagnard soldiers involves more than just beating the bush and killing the enemy. The world of the Jarai is both primitive and complex and learning to survive in it is the challenge of Galens turbulent life. On a journey that becomes as much spiritual as military St. Cyr virtually becomes Jarai taking a hauntingly lovely native lover who commands a squad of assassins and listens to spirit voices and deals with tribal separatist elements who are planning an anti-government coup.