II CORPS

The CIA In Vietnam

by Tim Lilly

 

Book Details


Here is the highly anticipated coinciding spin off sequel to the novel Wode Susu: My Uncle—A Story Of The Chinese Mafia. In the first novel in this series you learned of a trinity of central characters. The first novel was told from the point of view of the Chinese Mafia Boss Chan Wan San’s nephew Randal Ting and his best friend was Tommy Landis. In this volume, Tommy tells you of his father Nathan Landis. From his growing up in a rural coal town, to his beginnings at the end of World War II in the OSS, and then recruited by the CIA to Force 784 for his part in the Korean War and then sent to Vietnam. He is appointed the declared agent to the Consulate General and director of air operations of Air America for Military Region 2, II Corps, Nha Trang, Republic of South Vietnam. Force 784 is a little known branch of the CIA that was the beginnings of the very first Delta Force Teams that were comprised of Air Commandos and Green Berets and would soon recruit the best soldiers from all branches of the Special Forces and operators and pilots from the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. Landis is not only the director of air operations but participates in all the highly classified clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. He has been told by his superiors that there is illegal profiteering going on and it his additional duty to sniff them out and expose them. He is also well aware that in doing so it will more than likely end his career in the Foreign Service. Not since the release of the movies “Platoon” and “Full Metal Jacket” has there been a story on Vietnam that is so compelling, gritty, and graphic. You will feel the humid climate and witness gun battles and dogfights unveil before your very eyes. You will hear the screams of dying men and see their blood splatter across the pages. The colorful characters will draw you in and make you feel as though you are in the story itself. Welcome to the real war in Vietnam. Based on a true story and inspired by real events.

 

Book Excerpt


Charley then signaled to Vance to take them out with his silenced Walther. Vance slid his boonie hat off his head and let it hang by its draw string from his neck like a cowboy hat. Jasper moved towards the front of the building and peered around the corner to make sure there was no one on the outside of the door and wouldn’t hear Vance take the shots. No one was there so he flashed a thumb up signal with his right hand. Vance then peered inside, took aim, and fired two shots each to the just left of the center of the chest of each guard through the window shattering the glass in the process. Charley, Vance, Jake, and Jasper walked briskly around the corner up the creaking stairs and opened the door. Aldridge and Gilliam both looked at them bewildered like they had been abducted by aliens. As they walked in the door Vance put 2 more shots each in the foreheads of the guards. He kept count and knew he only had one round left so he instinctively changed magazines. Jasper stayed outside crouched down outside the building entrance at the base of the stairs like a cat ready to pounce, surveying the front entrance of the camp. Charley asked them both, “Can you walk?” As Jake took the key from one of the dead guards and unlocked the stocks. “Yea, I think so,” Aldridge said. “I gauran God damn tee you I will,” Gilliam said Jake walked over to Aldridge and Gilliam and handed them the dead guards Ak’s and spare magazines and said, “Don’t fire unless it becomes necessary or you hear firing first.” Jasper was watching the gate and unfortunately he wasn’t cognizant of the fact that the Crazy Greek’s and Will’s position made it as such that they couldn’t see the front entrance of the enlisted men’s building although they could clearly see Jasper’s position. At that point a squad of 5 PROC guards came out of the enlisted men’s building and saw Jasper observing the front entrance to the camp and brought their AK’s to bear and 6 rounds of 7.62 millimeter rounds tore through Jasper’s left side, two of which pierced his heart and the other four rounds nearly cut his body in half above the waist. He was dead before he fell over to the ground. While still in the interrogation building Charley said calmly aloud, “Oh shit.” From his sniper position Will said, “Oh no!” Seeing Jasper killed was more than the Crazy Greek could take. He let out a loud yell, “AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!” and pitched one grenade at the bamboo fence and one at the barbed wire. In four seconds there were 6 foot wide holes where the fence and barbed wire were. Scores of PROC guards began to file out of their barracks and began to come into view of the Crazy Greek and Will. The Crazy Greek stood up and out onto the edge of the swale and began to fire his M-60 into the PROC personnel who were now madly rushing around like ants sprayed with insecticide trying to organize themselves into some semblance of a fighting force. While the Crazy Greek was firing; Will immediately threw off his camouflage netting, removed the silencer, changed magazines to the standard high velocity rounds, pulled the charging handle, and flipped the fire selector to “full auto” and saw the officers beginning to come out from their building into the fray and blew them all away. All the PROC troops were dropping like flies in the heat of the Mohave Desert. By now, Charley, Jake, and Vance began exiting the interrogation building with Adlridge and Gilliam in tow and saw Jasper on the ground in a bloody heap. They were filled with a terrible resolve. 0223 HRS Charley said, “Those motherfuckers!” He grabbed the remote detonator off of Jasper’s hip pocket and hit the firing button which blew the antenna array and the back half of the officer’s building to bits. They were a little too close on that one and had to duck back around to the west side of the interrogation building to escape the flying debris caused by the blast. Charley dropped his CAR-15 by its sling so it was hanging on his side and pulled his great great grandfather’s bowie knife from his right boot and put it in his left hand and then drew his .45 with his right hand. He then placed his right hand over his left as he was taught at the secret Special Forces school in the Florida everglades. Jake did the same with his K-Bar knife. Vance just pulled his Wing Chun Butterfly Knives and they both instinctively formed a skirmish line 4 meters apart to Charley’s right. Charley said to Aldridge and Gilliam, “We appreciate any help you can provide to our 6 (rear), but if you don’t feel up to it, just stay the fuck out of the way.” “We would be happy to oblige you son,” Aldridge said honestly and directly. Gilliam nodded his agreement and they both pulled the charging handles on what were once the dead guard’s AK-47’s. The Crazy Greek’s first belt of 100 rounds was now gone and instead of reloading he pulled the quick release lever on his sling and let the 60 drop to the ground. He pulled his K-Bar knife with his left hand and his .45 with his right. He looked at Will who nodded at him and let his CAR-15 drop to its side by the sling and pulled his K-Bar and .45 as well. They began to walk down the slightly elevated hill towards the 6 foot hole blown through the fence and barbed wire to join their team mates. With absolute malice in his heart the Crazy Greek said plainly, “The four horsemen ride,” referring to the apocalyptic passage in the book of Revelations. Charley moved forward and around the corner to the east and Jake and Vance swang an oblique like a pendulum and they started moving thru the guards like Amish harvesting their fields with scythes. They were alternating knife punctures and slices to the livers and kidneys and .45 shots to the jaw bones. It was intended that the wounds cause death but not instantaneously. They were meant to suffer first. If you shoot at the exact point where lower jaw is connected to the skull via the mandible joint the jaw falls free and only remains connected via the ligament and jaw muscle. If you shoot the subject straight through the side of the jaw and/or cheek; you can blow the subjects teeth out the other side of his face. Any one of these actions causes extreme pain and agony. This is why modern dentistry practices dictate the application of Novocain to the mandible joint called a “mandible block” when fillings or other dentistry work is being performed on the very rear molars of a patient. At one point Charley let out an Apache war cry. With his butterfly knives Vance turned one guard into what looked like a slaughtered cow that was about to be carved into steaks. When it was over they all met in the middle like a classic pincer movement and they were all covered in massive amounts of blood and dirt.

 

About the Author

Tim Lilly


Tim Lilly was born in Washington D.C. in January of 1965. At the age of three his family moved from Virginia to Taiwan while his father served in Vietnam as the director of air operations for Air America in Military Region 2 based in Nha Trang. In 1973 the Paris Peace Accord was signed thus ending American involvement in the war and Vietnam was declared safe for U.S. dependents, subsequently; he and his family relocated there shortly after the treaty was signed. On April 1st, 1975 Tim and his family left Vietnam just before Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army on April 30th. They had visited Hawaii several times on vacation and decided to make that their home. His Father started a real estate business where Tim began to work at the age of 14. He eventually came to run the company in 2005 but it was decimated in the Great Recession of 2008 and he closed its doors on June 30th, 2009. Tim Lilly has been a lifetime martial artist and speaks Mandarin due to his living in Taiwan at such a young age. He is now exploring a career in acting, martial arts stunt work, and is now an author. This novel is his second offering. It is an in depth look at the Vietnam Conflict and the events surrounding its causes and effects. This is a coinciding spin off sequel to his first novel entitled “Wode Susu: My Uncle-A Story Of The Chinese Mafia”. He encourages you to read that book first as it lays some foundation for this novel. All of his novels are gritty and graphic and offers entertaining action, drama, and comedy that allow you to truly connect with the characters and see what influences and motivates them. The interesting thing about his work is that he uses real events and historical timelines to lend credence and believability to his plots, storylines, opinions, and conclusions. He always includes some discussion on the political, social, and economic injustices caused by the greedy few in the world as he has experienced. Tim is confident this will be the best story on Vietnam since the release of “Platoon” and “Full Metal Jacket”.

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