Most of us have heard about "Black Operations" where our servicemen engage in covert missions around the globe such as the Seal Team 6 takedown of Osama Bin Laden. The reason we hear about these missions is because there are almost always press leaks. One mission that amazingly was not leaked and has remained secret for over 50 years is the Marine Corp Recon involvement in "Operation Phoenix" in North Vietnam back in 1958-59. That was before the start of the Vietnamese War, in fact, this unlawful action might even have been the trigger for the Vietnam War. "Operation Phoenix" was the inane creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When first implemented, it was their solution to stopping the spread of communism in Vietnam. Based on their distorted logic, they concluded the best method to use was to parachute Marines into the larger towns and villages in North Vietnam and have them kill all of the people there that were teaching the communist doctrine. "Operation Phoenix" was resurrected later in 1965-72 with missions of an again appalling but of a different and less criminal nature (they were killing Viet Cong supporters during wartime) were conducted by Army Special Forces and are well documented. What is not documented is the unlawful Marine Corp Recon actions 7 years earlier. To avoid embarrassment to our government, all mention of these earlier activities has been expunged from the archives, and it is a totally blanked out 2-year segment of Marine Corp history. Search as you like on the Internet or in the libraries, you can find absolutely nothing written about it, that is until this book. This book is based on the actual memoir of a Marine Sharpshooter (Sniper) and provides a detailed accounting of his involvement in those secretive black operations in North Vietnam followed by a bizarre several months surviving with Dayak headhunters in central Borneo. And yes, there is sex in the book as with Marines, there is always sex