They were young Americans - farmboys and city toughs - transformed into raw-edged killers in the green hell of'Nam.¿ But the daily diet of mud, blood, and deathin the miserable leech-infested swamplands of the Mekong Delta had taken itstoll on the men of the Third Platoon.¿Shell-shocked and battle-weary, they became careless.¿ And they paid a terrible price.Mistakes had already costLieutenant Marlin Beckwith the lives of some of his best men . . . anddelivered another into the brutal clutches of the VC.¿ Vowing to save his captured warrior, Beckwithleads his ravaged troops on an impossible rescue mission through the steamingjungles of Southwest Asia - a nightmare journey pastsnipers, ruthless CIA "spooks," and sadistic ARVN allies, and straight into thelethal heart of the most terrifying Cong offensive of the war . . . the bloodyhorror known as "Tet"!
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