High atop a sacred mountain in Laos, Lima Site 85 is America's most classified secret.
The radar installation doesn't appear on any map, doesn't exist in any official record, yet it's the nerve center guiding B-52 strikes deep into North Vietnam. Twelve young technicians man the scopes in shifts, believing they're safe behind concrete walls and military assurances. They're wrong.
When North Vietnamese Army regulars launch a coordinated night assault on the 'impregnable' mountaintop fortress, the installation's worst nightmare becomes reality. Mortar rounds shatter the pre-dawn quiet. Sappers breach the perimeter. The generator explodes in a fireball that lights up the jungle for miles. Chief Master Sergeant 'Pops' Hendricks, a career radar man, finds himself clutching an M1 carbine he's never fired in anger, watching his technicians—boys who joined to operate equipment, not fight wars—scramble for cover as enemy forces overrun their positions.
The CIA calls for immediate extraction. Archer and his rescue team must fly into an active combat zone, land on a mountain peak under siege, and extract personnel from a facility that's already falling. But in the chaos of battle, with no backup and no official support, the line between rescue mission and suicide run disappears.
Some secrets are worth dying for. Others will get you killed.
Genre: Thriller
The radar installation doesn't appear on any map, doesn't exist in any official record, yet it's the nerve center guiding B-52 strikes deep into North Vietnam. Twelve young technicians man the scopes in shifts, believing they're safe behind concrete walls and military assurances. They're wrong.
When North Vietnamese Army regulars launch a coordinated night assault on the 'impregnable' mountaintop fortress, the installation's worst nightmare becomes reality. Mortar rounds shatter the pre-dawn quiet. Sappers breach the perimeter. The generator explodes in a fireball that lights up the jungle for miles. Chief Master Sergeant 'Pops' Hendricks, a career radar man, finds himself clutching an M1 carbine he's never fired in anger, watching his technicians—boys who joined to operate equipment, not fight wars—scramble for cover as enemy forces overrun their positions.
The CIA calls for immediate extraction. Archer and his rescue team must fly into an active combat zone, land on a mountain peak under siege, and extract personnel from a facility that's already falling. But in the chaos of battle, with no backup and no official support, the line between rescue mission and suicide run disappears.
Some secrets are worth dying for. Others will get you killed.
Genre: Thriller
Used availability for David Lee Corley's Lima Site