The Quick and the Dead
by By Eickhoff, Randy Lee
Category: Fiction , War & Military

Vietnam, 1966. Benjamin "Wingo" Wingfoot is the leader of a Special Operations Group stationed deep upcountry. He's taken on plenty of dangerous and dirty missions, but something about his latest assignment doesn't sit well with him. Summoned back to Saigon, Wingo is ordered to kill a local bar girl suspected of spying for the North - and make it look like the routine murder of a prostitute.Right from the start, he suspects that there is far more to this mission than he is being told. Why, in a city where every other citizen may have ties to the North, is one young woman such a threat? Why not simply turn her over to the local authorities? And, perhaps most important, why assign this brutal task to him? He's a soldier, not an assassin.War may be hell, but, as Wingo struggles to uncover answers amidst the lies and corruption of wartime Saigon, he soon learns that even darker and more tortuous trials await him - and that the price of holding onto his soul may be more than any one man can endure.