Dragonfire
A Novel
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In master storyteller Andrew Kaplan’s action-packed thriller, the CIA sends its top agent to Southeast Asia to stop a war that threatens to be even bloodier than the conflict in Vietnam
The photograph in the CIA vault shows four men relaxing in the jungle, green berets draped over their rifles, enjoying a break from combat. On the day after the picture was taken, their friendship was torn apart forever. Now, ten years after the United States pulled out of Vietnam, the CIA has sent one of the men, Parker, to Thailand to track a troop movement across the Cambodian border, which is about to explode, luring the Americans back into another disastrous ground war.
When Parker disappears, the CIA deploys its best agent, Parker’s former friend Sawyer, in a secret operation code-named Dragonfire, to rescue Parker and prevent the war. But in the forbidden jungles of the Golden Triangle, a mysterious Asian beauty will lead Sawyer into a strange and savage world of opium traders, warlords, and militant factions, where nothing is as it seems and the only certainty is death.
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North Vietnamese troops are at the border of Thailand, poised to pursue Cambodian rebels across the line. By violating Thailand's sovereignty, they will draw the U.S. into another war. And so, in this adventure novel, the CIA sends Michael Parker on an unusual mission. He will offer the Cambodian resistance arms in exchange for a valuable supply of morphine that the U.S. will keep from the hands of drug dealers. But agent Parker is seized, and in his stead, a one-eyed golden boy, code name Sawyer, is sent together with a beautiful Eurasian companion. Kaplan (Hour of the Assassin tries to reconcile worshipful attitudes toward Oriental wisdom with a harsh portrayal of Asian cruelties committed for selfish as well as national interests. Sometimes this combination gives his novel a thrilling plausibility. Often, it leaves the battered English of Kaplan's many perfidious Oriental characters ringing uncomfortably in the reader's ears.
