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Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved from the grey-green pile jungle. Frosty monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery pack of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully designed fields of flames and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos and two from North Vietnam, there is absolutely no more isolated outpost of America's significantly desperate war in Vietnam.Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years of age and just a few days into his 13-month tour, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain and sent deep in-country in search of a North Vietnamese Army unit of unknown size. Beyond the relative safeness of the perimeter line, Mellas will face disease, hunger, leeches, tigers and an almost invisible enemy. Under the never-ending jungle canopy, Bravo Company will confront rivalling ambitions, duplicitous officials and simmering racial tensions. Behind them, always, Matterhorn. The impregnable pile fortress they built and then deserted, without a shot, to the North Vietnamese Military...
