Where The Map Ends

Laos, 1968. Beyond the border, there are places American soldiers officially do not go—and missions that officially do not exist.Staff Sergeant Calder Venn has barely returned from a patrol that killed one of his men and left him wounded when another mission lands on his desk.The target appears simple: a concealed road deep across the border, increasing truck traffic, and signs of an installation hidden beneath the jungle canopy. Venn and his eight-man reconnaissance team are to slip in unseen, discover what the enemy is building, and get out without being detected.Four days on the ground.Observe. Report. Survive.But in the mountains and jungles of Laos, nothing stays simple for long.Unexplained tracks cross their route. A hidden communications line leads toward something that should not be there. Enemy convoys move through valleys the maps say should be empty. And with every mile, Venn becomes increasingly certain that somebody knows they have crossed the border.For the men of the team, survival depends on discipline, trust and the ability to disappear into country where a single broken branch can betray them.Because when a reconnaissance patrol is compromised deep inside enemy territory, there are no front lines to retreat behind.There is only the jungle.The enemy.And the long way home.WHERE THE MAP ENDS is a tense military historical-fiction novel set against the shadow war in Laos during the Vietnam War—an immersive story of covert reconnaissance, brotherhood, survival and the soldiers who fought in places that officially did not exist.