Betrayed his own people and imprisoned in Leavenworth for murder, Farrell is offered a release from his imprisonment. A contract with CIA, a chance to become a paid killer for their Phoenix Program.

After serving with honor in Vietnam, his crime was to kill a Vietnamese traitor who aided the Vietcong, an official who betrayed his own people and sent them to their deaths. The men running the war understood it was a righteous kill, but the victim had connections in the Saigon government. They demanded retribution. Demanded Farrell serves a long sentence in a deep, dark cell. With no other choice, he agrees to join the Phoenix Program and he lands at Tan Son Nhut Airbase outside Saigon. They attach him to a small squad led by a brutal sociopath, Clarence Dorsey. A ruthless assassin who has vowed, ‘the only good gook is a dead gook.’ A killer who scatters the bodies of innocent and guilty alike in his wake.

Farrell is sickened by Dorsey’s callous disregard for innocent life. When he protests, he finds himself placed on the target list. His contract becomes as much about defending himself from Dorsey and his psychotic buddy, as it is about killing the enemy. When the squad is plunged deep into hostile territory, Paul Farrell must fight a brutal, no-holds-barred war on two fronts. Against the Vietcong and their treacherous collaborators. And against Clarence’s efforts to kill him. This is a story of a little-known Black Operation that takes place in the middle of the dense and hostile Vietnamese jungle. The story of one man’s desperate struggle to stay alive and to maintain a sense of honor and morality in a country where the notion of humanity has become meaningless.

A full-length novel by the bestselling author of many Spec Ops books. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles.