Young journalist Richard Logan is not long out of college when he stumbles on aCIA pot to smuggle heroin into the United States to fund secret wars in Southeast Asia. Armed only with his degree and a year of experience at a small newspaper, Logan travels to Saigon to become a war correspondent. A story he writes against the Vietnamese president leads to a warning from U.S. embassy representatives that he will lose his visa and be shipped back home if he doesn't stay away from controversial subjects.

A chance meeting with Green Beret Dave Reynard provides a turning point forLogan, who desperately needs an ally in this country where strangers are viewedwith suspicion - especially those who interfere with profitable drug traffickingand might dampen morale back in the United States. Logan accompaniesReynard on a supply mission through the jungles of Vietnam, surviving a sniperattack and shelling. The streets of Cholon prove more dangerous when hereceives a beating while researching GI drug use.

Will Logan be able to foil the CIA's plot and save the beautiful woman withwhom he's falling in love? Or will he be forced to head 3back home without hisbig story? Readers will enjoy this literary thrill ride featuring the fearless Logan, who also stars in "A Long Way from Paradise," the author's first novel, set years after his adventures in "Violence of Action."