# Read the first page of Cry Havoc by Jack Carr Read the opening of Cry Havoc by Jack Carr free, no signup. A young Navy SEAL is caught between the military and the CIA in Vietnam. - Page: https://uncovered.ink/read/cry-havoc-jack-carr - Genre: Thrillers - Year: 2025 - ISBN: 9781668095287 - Read it blind (cover and title hidden): https://uncovered.ink/?b=9781668095287&s=read-page - Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/125786/9781668095287 - Borrow: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=9781668095287 ## The opening It was the absence of sounds that alerted him. The jungle, itself a living, breathing creature, spoke to those who knew its secrets. A pause in its natural rhythm was a warning: intruders had violated its sanctity. The jungle is neutral. That’s what Dad used to say after he got into the brown water. That was a different time. A different war. The jungle remains neutral. Supposedly so did Laos, but only on paper. In reality, Laos allowed the NVA, the North Vietnamese Army, to resupply units in South Vietnam in direct violation of the 1962 Geneva Accords. To do so, they used the Truong Son Strategic Supply Route, known in the West as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. That was where MACV-SOG came in and why Thomas Reece, Gunner’s Mate First Class, SEAL, United States Navy, lay sweating on the jungle floor in the oppressive humidity beneath the triple canopy that kept his world in a perpetual state of dusk. His ears, nose, eyes, and mouth were under attack by hungry malaria-ridden mosquitos while the leeches that had found their way under his clothing were swelling to the size of thumbs with his blood. MACV-SOG was the rather innocuous name for Military Assistance Command, Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group. With operators selected primarily from the ranks of the 5th Special Forces Group, MACV-SOG Recon Teams were tasked with prosecuting the secret war across borders in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Though the team did “study and observe,” more often than not they brought death and destruction to the enemy on their home turf. They had become so effective that the NVA had deployed specially designated hunter-killer teams focused on neutralizing the SOG threat. Trained by the 305th Sapper Command, the NVA enlisted the assistance of expert local hunters and trackers, offering sizable bounties for any SOG personnel—dead or alive. Tom ever so slightly tightened his grip on the chopped Soviet-designed Chinese-made 7.62 x 39 RPD machine gun. He had modified it by shortening the barrel and removing the bipod to give him a weapon that felt closer to Eugene Stoner’s famed Stoner 63 that Tom had carried on his last SEAL deployment in the Rung Sat Special Zone in the swamps of the south. Things were different in the mountains of Laos, but what remained the same was the need to unleash as much chaos as the gods of war would allow when there was no choice but to go kinetic. A Montagnard mercenary lay an arms-length to his left. Another to his right. The name Montagnard came from the French and translated as “inhabitant of the mountains.” The indigenous fighters came from tribes of the Central Highlands and had formed a close alliance with American Army Special Forces teams. The Yards had sensed it too; the specter of death that hung over them in the perpetual mists of the highlands was descending. Once the rain started, it would make it hard for aircraft to identify the small element on the ground, a complication that meant no air support. They would be on their own. ## Books with a similar feel - [Agent in Place by Mark Greaney](https://uncovered.ink/read/agent-in-place-mark-greaney.md) - [Daylight by David Baldacci](https://uncovered.ink/read/daylight-david-baldacci.md) - [The Sentinel by Lee Child](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-sentinel-lee-child.md) - [The Partner by John Grisham](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-partner-john-grisham.md) - [Easy Day for the Dead by Stephen Templin](https://uncovered.ink/read/easy-day-for-the-dead-stephen-templin.md) - [The Novels of Gillian Flynn by Gillian Flynn](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-novels-of-gillian-flynn-gillian-flynn.md) --- Source: Uncovered (https://uncovered.ink). A short sample shown for reading and discovery. Rights holders can request removal at https://uncovered.ink/takedown.