According to the book
description of MIKE Force: A Novel of Vietnam's Central Highlands War,
"A soldier serving with the MIKE Force in Vietnam wakes up every day knowing it
might be his last. You dont run with the indigenous Montagnard strikers
expecting to live forever. Thats the nature of the beast that haunts American
advisors serving with the tough little highland tribal volunteers in Vietnams
misty, enemy-infested central highlands. Its tough, demanding duty and just the
kind of thing that attracts military mavericks like former Peace Corps volunteer
Galen St. Cyr, who finds empathy and a new, mystical identity with the Jarai
tribesmen of his MIKE Force unit. He finds himself on the outskirts of the
regular U.S. military along with hand-picked American, Australian, and
Vietnamese Special Forces advisors and quickly discovers that duty with
Montagnard soldiers involves more than just beating the bush and killing the
enemy. The world of the Jarai is both primitive and complex, and learning to
survive in it is the challenge of Galens turbulent life. On a journey that
becomes as much spiritual as military, St. Cyr virtually becomes Jarai, taking a
hauntingly lovely native lover who commands a squad of assassins and listens to
spirit voices, and deals with tribal separatist elements who are planning an
anti-government coup."
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