Tango Uniform (Vietnam Air War Book 3) by Wilson Tom

Author:Wilson, Tom [Wilson, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

1045L—Takhli Base Operations

Major Lucky Anderson

Lucky stared numbly as the round-robin gooney bird dropped onto the end of the runway. A dull, persistent ache gnawed in his chest, and horrors kept buzzing about inside his head, making it difficult to think clearly. He kept going over his phone call to Linda's office in the Bangkok embassy. All the people there could tell him was what was already in the newspaper article. Then they'd connected him with a familiar male voice that sounded entirely too collected.

Linda was missing, the voice said evenly.

Was she alive?

They didn't know.

Had the embassy been contacted about a ransom?

Not so far.

Who had taken her?

They had no idea.

"She's my fiancée," he'd pleaded with the voice. "I've got to know what's happening!"

If he didn't realize that, the voice on the telephone had said quietly, they wouldn't be talking. Linda's name hadn't been released to the press.

"Who am I talking to?" he'd demanded.

"This is Richard. We spoke once before, remember?"

"I'm going to NKP to find out what's going on," he'd told him.

"I'd rather you didn't, Colonel."

"I've got to."

"Do what you must. We hear anything, we'll contact you." Richard had then terminated the conversation.

As he watched the gooney bird taxi off the runway, Lucky realized that Buster Leska had likely been right. He wouldn't even know where to start when he got to Nakhon Phanom. He had friends there. One worked in Igloo White, a secretive project to set up eavesdropping sensors on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Another was a pilot he'd been stationed with when he'd flown F-100's, who was now ops officer of the O-1 Birddog squadron. While it was unlikely he'd be any help in his search for Linda, at least he'd be able to cadge a bed and maybe be introduced to the right people.

He remembered another friend at NKP. Yeah, he thought as he started walking toward the gooney bird, which was coming to a halt, brakes squealing like a thousand-pound rat. Sergeant Black might be able to help.

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