The setting is Laos, during the CIA’s illegal and extraordinarily violent “secret war” of the early 1970’s. The plot revolves around a CIA special ops agent named ZACK, a beautiful young Laotian doctor called NITA, and their brutal, narcissistic leader, JIMMY LOVE, based on a real character who fought the Communists in Laos for many years. The CIA has engaged them all to work with the local Hmong tribesmen in their “shadow war “against Pathet Lao forces in supposedly neutral Laos. Yet each of them has a personal objective. Zack wants to pay back the Communists for the annihilation of his last platoon. Nita, a secret Pathet Lao spy, wants to avenge the death of her father, killed by the CIA. Jimmy wants pay-back for his Lao wife KALEA and best friend VANG, who ran off together to join the enemy. Thrown together in battle and at the mountain firebase…
