Cruel Hunters — Eric Meyer

CIA mercenaries, paid assassins of the ‘Phoenix Program,’ head north on a mission to locate and eliminate a North Vietnamese spy. A beautiful female, working in a Da Nang brothel to undermine American officers through blackmail. Luring them into compromising situations and then forcing them to reveal classified information.Phoenix operator and former infantryman Paul Farrell is uneasy about the mission. Entering the brothel and eliminating a woman responsible for the wholesale slaughter of American troops, is a vital task in supporting the war against the communists. But the Phoenix boss has gone one step further. His orders are to destroy the entire brothel and everybody inside it as a harsh and severe lesson to Hanoi. The prospect of killing the innocent along with the guilty is a tough call, and he wrestles with the order as the mission proceeds.This is a story of a Black Operation that takes place at the height of the Vietnam war. A violent story of duty and betrayal, and a struggle to survive against a vicious enemy who is conducting a vicious war against the South, and its American allies. A struggle that becomes personal when Paul Farrell learns of the death of the girl he’d planned to marry. With nothing left to live for, he continues to battle the hard, brutal North Vietnamese Army, along with their allies, the black pajama-clad guerillas of the Vietcong.They are not the only enemy. The Army of South Vietnam, the ARVN, aided by members of the Phoenix program, has issued an order to arrest him. Yet he must go on, must keep fighting. There is too much at stake. Saigon is unaware the communists secretly plan to attack Hue. Although cut off from all communications, he must get a warning to his bosses in Tan Son Nhut before it is too late.A full-length novel by the bestselling author of many Spec Ops books. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles.