CHAPTER TWO
At about the same time, but the scenery is now the spacious office of the military attache in Vietiane, young Lieutenant Edwin Mc Cullough felt deeply concerned about the fact that Saigon had not bothered to reply to their request for instructions on the Li Xieng affair.
Li Xieng had been the first interesting thing to happen to Lieutenant Mc Cullough since he had taken his post in Laos. He remembered clearly the fat, frightened visitor he had received almost a week ago a whole week, and no reply from Saigon! a visitor who offered to give vital information about the developments of Red troops in North Vietnam as well as about infiltration of North Vietnamese units in Laos. With the bloody war going on, what could be more vital!
And Li Xieng wasn't just anybody, a faceless Or
