

In this sequel to Not to Reason Why, the reader meets three of its main characters again: Sue Guerri, her husband Rick, a former Air Force pilot, and Jeff Nickerson, his fellow ROTC instructor, now an intelligence officer in Saigon. The trio finds themselves tangled in another battle. This one is far from the streets of a college campus; it is Saigon in the spring of 1975.
As South Vietnam crumbles under the advancing Communist forces, Rick and Jeff are called once again to help in what may be the final chapter of the war. Sue is with them—as is danger. New faces join them who share their call to action.
The characters meet in Southeast Asia as the dominoes fall while the American people—and a polarized Congress—idly watch.
Rick and Lt. Col. Tinh must decide which is more important: risk their lives and fly another mission or save their families and flee?
Former Marine pilot Clicker came for the jets—and for the women he loves. But now he must choose between escape and honor. Can Mai, Sue's only friend in this foreign land, take her son and flee the danger with Sue and David?
For Special Forces veterans, Dobie and Jimbo, it might be just another adventure. Perhaps it’s something deeper: the unbreakable code of brotherhood.
When a comrade calls for help, a soldier can give but one reply.
Zack was a gung-ho, rookie fighter pilot, just starting the march to his life's goal: to become the best fighter pilot in the US military. Ruth was about to graduate with her teaching degree, looking forward to the challenge of molding young minds. Neither had considered any diversions to their plans. But they meet, and she realizes that he is "the one." She will follow him wherever he goes. Before the fighter pilot realizes it, he discovers that she has snuck up "on his six" and has captured his heart.
Soon after their quick marriage, Zack flies off to an unpopular war in a distant country. In the months and years to follow, the war confronts each with battles on two fronts that they must fight, separated and alone.
How far can a warrior succumb to the brutal demands of his captors and still uphold his Code of Conduct? Does honor matter when the price can be one’s mental or physical health? How can a young wife eight thousand miles away fight the battle to bring her man home?
In the skies over North Vietnam to the prison camps below and back to the streets of America’s colleges, the battles must be faced, usually alone. The enemies are the jailers in the distant land who are intent on isolating, exploiting and forcing their captives to participate in propaganda stunts. Those distant foes, though, have allies on the home front, who are determined to bring the war home.
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