Napalm in the Morning

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Warrant Officer Carl Yeager finds Van Le, his beautiful and fiery Vietnamese fiancé, murdered in a Saigon backstreet. Nearby are the bodies of two CIA agents. The war just became personal. Yeager falls apart. His first wife was murdered by a Vietcong bomber, and now it has happened again. His ambitious boss, Colonel Clark, takes advantage of his confusion and employs chicanery, outright lies, and manipulating his army service record, to persuade him to over the unfinished CIA investigation. Yeager discovers the identity of the target is an embittered Marine major, a former company commander refused advancement because of his unit's notorious record of slaughtering innocent civilians. He is located inside Cambodia, which means the Khmer Rouge. Assigned a reluctant unit of ARVN Special Forces, they suffer heavy casualties crossing the border. They reach the enemy base, but a bombing raid is impossible, due to the proximity of too many civilians. With no alternative, they must do it the hard way and mount an attack against overwhelming odds. The attack fails, and they retreat over the border. Yet Yeager isn't finished. He wants payback, for his fiancée Van Le, and for all the others who've died at the hands of a bunch of deserters and butchers. He hatches an ambitious but risky plan to lure the warband into a baited trap. The plan should succeed, provided Colonel Clark plays ball. Except Clark has another agenda, and he is more than happy to sacrifice as many men as necessary, including Carl Yeager, to achieve it. The climax is a spectacular battle of opposing forces from all sides. 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.

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About the author

Eric Meyer

Eric is UK author and a graduate of University College, Cardiff, where he studied politics. He served part-time in the Commandos, the Royal Marines Reserve, reaching the rank of Colour Sergeant. During his service he was seconded to take part in and lead a number of sensitive and classified missions, as well as undertake instructor assignments in a number of Special Forces schools. During this time he pursued a full-time career as an independent coach and consultant, working with various blue chip and smaller organisations. Eric Meyer has developed a specialty as a motivational coach, and drew heavily on his military experience to give his clients the tools for leadership, initiative and audacity that are the mark of the small unit commander.

Working with a number of authors and experts, he has been co-writer on a number of self-improvement and motivational titles. As an author, his books are sold all over the world in paperback, hardback and ebook format. He writes mainly in the genres of military thriller, and detective thriller. Indeed, his first novel, Devil's Guard, The Real Story, is a fact based novel based on the French IndoChina war in what is now known as Vietnam. With a number of novels set during World War II on the Eastern Front, as well as novels of the Vietnam War, his military experience is reflected in a range of war fiction titles. The detective thrillers are based on an NYPD detective, Gabriel de Sade, a Special Forces veteran.

He has also presented a number of documentary films, mostly exploring historical subjects ranging from early Christian history to the mystical brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci.

Eric is married with three children, and still pursues his military and historical research in his available spare time. He is also a keen runner, and has achieved success in a number of road and off-road races, including fell-running, the challenging sport of competitive running across hill ranges in the countryside. Throughout his career he has combined his extensive and growing knowledge of military affairs with his zest for the latest motivational tools to produce novels that will both thrill and entertain the reader. Current projects include research into the causes and progress of the war in Afghanistan. Currently, Eric Meyer is a full-time novelist.