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Mead's Trek
Mead's Trek is Amos Mead’s
next assignment during World War II.
The Vice
President of the United States
working with the Communists to undermine President Roosevelt?
President Truman lays the groundwork for the tragic Vietnam War
in 1945? History may be stranger than the fiction in this book.
The World War II China/Burma/India Theater of Operations was a
confusing array of competing interests and undefined battle
fronts.
Major Amos Mead, USMC, on assignment with the OSS,
is thrust violently into enemy territory and endures a trek from
Burma
to China
marked by death and survival to pursue his mission – a mission
that evolves beyond his knowledge by the intrigues of
governments and corrupt officials that may include the Vice
President of the
United States.
Assumed friends become enemies, assumed enemies become friends,
as Mead finds himself drawn into a struggle that has its roots
in the previous millennia.
There is a “girl
back home” for Amos Mead. The nurse he met while searching for
his wounded team after the sinking of the SS Cape San Juan,
Brigit O’Hare, has weaved her way into his life and complicated
his mind set for the mission.
The team, all familiar
to Orion’s Eye readers, faces combat and death at the hands of
the Japanese as they enter Burma.
The mission is complicated by opportunities for Amos and the
team to rescue downed American pilots who are being held as
POW’s by the Japanese. There is action, suffering, and death.
Tom Gauthier once
again weaves a tale of intrigue and deadly action from the
historic events of a little known corner of a war, and the
actions of real men and women who lived and died there.
“I became intrigued with the history of this part of
WWII. Americans were actually working with Ho Chi Minh to
defeat the Japanese in Indo-China (later
Vietnam). Had the Allies
listened to Ho, and the needs of the Viet Minh to throw off
the yoke of the colonial French, the 1960’s Vietnam War
could have been avoided! Lots went on behind the scenes that
I am weaving into the book.”
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