Jeremiah recalled his "rite of passage," which was not the m******e outside that Viet Namese village. It occurred, however, in the same country. Allied soldiers captured two enemy spies, believed to know the time and location of a heavy arms shipment into friendly territory. Jeremiah was selected to extract the information in any way necessary. Up to this moment, all of his work had gone by the book, businesslike, professional, morally defensible - and that was exactly what the network feared.
The time had come for this superstar agent to "kill his first buffalo," to strike a blow for the tribe and earn the title of "brave."
They left him alone with the prisoners whose hands were bound. They left him with a loaded gun and a knife. At first he tried to reason with them in their native ton
