The Five Fingers torrent

The Five Fingers by Gale Rivers is my favorite Vietnam era war novel.

From the front cover: "If it's fiction it's harrowing, if it's fact it's terrifying - the dirtiest, deadliest mision of any war" seems a bit much for me.

From the back cover: "They were seven men - crack special service operatives. They were to have no military support, no radio contact, nothing to rely on but their expertise in small arms and explosives. There was to be no capture, no surrender. Alone in the steamy jungles of Loas and Vietnam, they know that once in China they were on their own. There would be no rescue operation..."

[Optical PDF so it is a bit big]