The Dega: A Mike Force Novel
Vietnam's Central Highlands, late 1967: Special Forces is raising its largest Mobile Strike Force to a parachute brigade in order to transfer it to Vietnamese Army control. But two companies have deserted at Dak To on orders of a Montagnard independence movement (FULRO) agent who aims to lead the "MIKE" Force into a revolt against the Vietnamese. Since a revolt is not in America's interest, this agent must be uncovered and co-opted. The Vietnamese want him identified and killed. Both have chosen their best men for the job; Major Charlie Regter, an old Special Forces hand intimately familiar with FULRO's leadership, and Major Ton That Ngoc, an arrogant cousin of the Imperial family who cut his combat teeth with French Paracommandos in the First Indochina War. Though Ngoc and Regter despise each other, they must cooperate. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Galen Saint Cyr is the man on the ground. A former Peace Corps volunteer turned infantry officer, he has been pulled from a U.S. Division to command a company of tribal warriors whose language he speaks. But as St. Cyr discovers, surviving hard combat with an ever growing enemy seems more important than any revolt. Yet in a world where allies are not always friends, nor friends always allies, and a lover commands assassins and obeys voices in her head, deadly choices will have to be made.