Eagle Station — Mark Berent

For the fighter pilots, tanker drivers, and other pilots with reason to navigate in northern Laos, there are few pieces of real estate more valuable than Eagle Station and its radar. Now Eagle Station is in danger of being overrun, though by whom is unclear. Is it the Pathet Lao, the North Vietnamese, the Soviets' elite Spetsnaz teams? USAF Major Court Bannister and Special Forces Colonel Wolf Lochert are tasked to set up the defense of the station, but mortal blows rain from unexpected quarters, and soon all are in a race against the clock, their job complicated by politics at home, treachery in the field, and the wild card of massive drug traffic. They know the forces whirling around them will come to a head but what the outcome will be is anybody's guess.