A dead body in a combat zone barely merits a second glance. The perfect place to commit a murder.
Army cop Erik Rider prefers to fight his war in the saloons of Saigon. So he is less than thrilled at being sent to a tiny American outpost in the remote wilderness of the Central Highlands. Sitting perilously close to a North Vietnamese infiltration route, Cheo Reo is rife with intrigue and betrayal: American supplies are being siphoned off by South Vietnamese corruption, the tribal Montagnards are ready to start a bloody rebellion to regain their ancestral homeland, and Communists are harvesting opium to finance their war effort. Rider’s been sent to root out this opium trade, but he is soon entangled with a local CIA man and an alluring doctor serving the indigenous tribes. As he closes in on the opium fields, he learns that not all enemies are beyond the perimeter. Someone in Cheo Reo wants him dead.
- ISBN10 0547564511
- ISBN13 9780547564517
- Publish Date 20 September 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 294
- Language English