Laos File

The story opens in the late 1990s, with frequent glimpses back to the Vietnam years of the late 1960s and early 1970s. When an aging Marine Sergeant Major, who ran special operations in Vietnam between 1972 and 1976, dies, he leaves behind notebooks recording his classified missions. Marine Sergeant Shake Davis reads them and becomes determined to learn what became of the hundreds of American prisoners of war who vanished along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a search that quickly turns dangerous.

Davis joins an official mission meant to normalize relations with Vietnam after the war. Its public purpose is diplomatic, but its hidden goal is to trace the many Americans still listed as missing in action. Working inside that mission, Davis finds himself fighting a war he had assumed was long over.

His investigation draws the attention of former enemy forces determined to keep the killing of POWs buried, and Davis barely survives an assassination attempt. The novel is written for adult readers who enjoy military fiction and conspiracy-driven action.