But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself having to do the last thing he ever wanted return to Vietnam. But almost as soon as he returns to Vietnam, a country that still haunts him, he discovers that there is more to this investigation than a forgotten murder much more. Brenner, former combat veteran, again finds himself in a battle for survival as he enters a world of corruption and double-crosses, where, for the second time in his life, he cannot distinguish friend from foe, and where his only allies are his wits and his bravery and possibly a beautiful American expatriate named Susan Weber. She, like the country in which she's chosen to live, is exotic, sensual, and quite possibly dangerous. The following is a preview of Up Country .
Bad things come in threes.
The first bad thing was a voice mail from Cynthia Sunhill, my former partner in the army's Criminal Investigation Division. Cynthia is still with the CID, and she is also my significant other, though we were having some difficulties with that job description. Call me tonight, no matter how late. I just got called on a case, and I have to leave tomorrow morning. I looked at the mantle clock in my small den.