Michael Keefe was a captain in the
Signal Corps. He was red-headed
and six foot one and he worked for
a lieutenant colonel who was at-
most six feet tall and was named
Margaret Eriksen and was a dish
known as Tiny.
Mike had been in Hawaii, enjoy-
ing himself, when he got orders to
take the first available transporta-
tion to Washington and then to re-
port to the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point.
Tiny briefed him on his way to
West Point. "What do you know
about 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 Colville
a note, marked "Very confidential."
The note read, "Place classified ad
in next Sunday New York Times
offering 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 brought
here because you were the person
recommended by her superiors as
best qualified. You and Captain
Keefe have a track record."
All, it seems, that Tiny and Mike
had to do was to find out if Captain
Bostwick and a Sergeant Bailey,
who apparently was with him, were
dead 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 hands
as Tiny and Mike could have imag-
ined, since it involved many desper-
ate people including a remarkable
young woman named Miss Binh
and the Blue Star.
MICHAEL WOLFE has used effectively
the background of post-war torn
Vietnam in his previous books. This
may be one of his most effective
novels set in that part of the world.
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