| Michael Keefe was a captain in theSignal Corps. He was red-headedand six foot one and he worked fora lieutenant colonel who was at-most six feet tall and was namedMargaret Eriksen and was a dishknown as Tiny. Mike had been in Hawaii, enjoy-ing himself, when he got orders totake the first available transporta-tion to Washington and then to re-port to the U.S. Military Academyat West Point. Tiny briefed him on his way toWest Point. "What do you knowabout the Bostwicks?" she asked. He said, "Not much." But he learned a lot about them before he was through. General Bostwick had just died, and his son- in-law was Senator Colville, a top man in the field of military affairs. Anne Bostwick was the Senator s daughter and her husband was Captain Bostwick, who was missing in action in Vietnam, and someone had just sent Anne a box with two gold rings in it--a wedding band and a West Point class ring. Some-one had also sent Senator Colvillea note, marked "Very confidential."The note read, "Place classified adin next Sunday New York Timesoffering 1957 Edsel sedan for sale.Give local phone number to call.The cognition word, radio. Re-sponse word, photo. " Senator Colville was a very im-portant man. And he said to Tiny,"Colonel Eriksen, you were broughthere because you were the personrecommended by her superiors asbest qualified. You and CaptainKeefe have a track record." All, it seems, that Tiny and Mikehad to do was to find out if CaptainBostwick and a Sergeant Bailey,who apparently was with him, weredead or alive, where they were, and,if alive, to rescue them without in-volving the Army or the U.S. An interesting mission, A danger-ous mission. And one more com-plicated than even such old handsas Tiny and Mike could have imag-ined, since it involved many desper-ate people including a remarkableyoung woman named Miss Binhand the Blue Star.MICHAEL WOLFE has used effectivelythe background of post-war tornVietnam in his previous books. Thismay be one of his most effectivenovels set in that part of the world. |
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