Another tidbit from Golden Gate ... available now at Barnes and Noble or from Amazon.com as an ebook. Enjoy!!!
It was a bold gesture, a desperate command, like insulting an armed robber as he enters your home. Would his men feel his call to the gods of war? Would they panic, seeing it as a desperate last step? Would it appear to be a mental trick to his men … Do they need it? ... Will it work? Luong’s voice echoed across the rice paddy - “Fix bayonets!”
Mo, the PUFF squad member closest to Luong, stared at him incredulously, then blurted - “Are you crazy? Most of us don’t have bayonets. I don’t have a bayonet. What do you expect … Do you want us all to get killed?”
And a bit later in the novel ...
Thanh’s men were now taking fire, consciously aimed to kill each of them, from both ahead and from their flank. There was no longer recognizable movement forward, towards escape.
Hung’s radio blared - “Two Three Three Charlie, this Seawolf Six Niner, we’re five minutes out and loaded; how can we help?”
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