Where There Were No Innocents

By Thomas Drinkard
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Published: June 24, 2011
Words: 57333 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

Mack Brinson is a hunted man. He is a Green Beret Captain assigned to the headquarters of MACV-SOG, the premier covert operations command in the Vietnam War. His duties make him a special target for assassination by the Viet Cong. In Saigon, he meets and falls deeply in love with a beautiful Eurasian woman, Song. The VC begin to target her. Brinson must keep her safe as he executes his duties.

Extended description

Mack Brinson is a hunted man. He is a Green Beret Captain assigned to the headquarters of MACV-SOG, the premier covert operations command in the Vietnam War. His duties include managing a wiretap program on North Vietnamese telephone lines along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos and Cambodia. The project is TOP SECRET but someone in the Communist power structure has connected Brinson directly to the strategy and specially targeted him for assassination.

Training SOG’s Recon Teams in the use of wiretap devices takes Brinson to the Forward Operations Base in Kontum where he meets an NCO, Jackson, who is destined to become one of his closest friends. On a mission into Laos with Jackson’s team, Brinson proves, with a fighting knife, that he is much more than a Saigon Commando. He earns the nickname, “Blade.”

In Saigon, he meets and falls deeply in love with a beautiful Eurasian woman, Song, the daughter of a Vietnamese intelligence operative. The Viet Cong attempts to get at Brinso... (Read more) Mack Brinson is a hunted man. He is a Green Beret Captain assigned to the headquarters of MACV-SOG, the premier covert operations command in the Vietnam War. His duties include managing a wiretap program on North Vietnamese telephone lines along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos and Cambodia. The project is TOP SECRET but someone in the Communist power structure has connected Brinson directly to the strategy and specially targeted him for assassination.

Training SOG’s Recon Teams in the use of wiretap devices takes Brinson to the Forward Operations Base in Kontum where he meets an NCO, Jackson, who is destined to become one of his closest friends. On a mission into Laos with Jackson’s team, Brinson proves, with a fighting knife, that he is much more than a Saigon Commando. He earns the nickname, “Blade.”

In Saigon, he meets and falls deeply in love with a beautiful Eurasian woman, Song, the daughter of a Vietnamese intelligence operative. The Viet Cong attempts to get at Brinson by kidnapping Song and her mother. In a quick and decisive gun battle, Song’s father teams with Brinson to rescue the women. Knowing that the enemy is targeting Song, Brinson devises a solution that will keep her safe.

Surviving the Tet Offensive of ‘68 stands between him and a safe return to the U.S. In vicious street fighting, Brinson and his friends run a pre-dawn gauntlet of fire to get to their base and then race through pitched battles to rescue a wounded soldier. During the action, he discovers the man who has been feeding the Communists information that has led to the assassination attempts against him.

The Tet battles are not over when Brinson is sent back to Kontum to work, again, with Jackson. This time, they infiltrate behind the lines into Laos, setting an ambush on a Communist truck convoy intent on bringing out looted valuables from the ancient palace in Hue. As the team is en route to their exfiltration landing zone, they stumble across a killing field. Someone has waylaid the North Vietnamese thieves who had looted Hue. The twenty-three men have been murdered and subjected to ghastly mutilation.

As Brinson is in the final days of his tour and planning to go home, He may not make it. The secret Viet Cong controller, who had been watching him and relaying information to the Communists, tries to kill him, swearing gruesome butchery before death.
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love story, vietnam war, special forces, combat, green beret, stories about relationships, stories about men, behind enemy lines

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