Publisher's Synopsis
CHIEFTAIN
"I saw good men blown to pieces in Iraq and Afghanistan for the lies of the CIA and Bush, who flat-out lied about WMD in Iraq, for the lies of the fuckin' goddamn counterinsurgency idiocy of Mattis and Petraeus. Trump and Mattis and the CIA and all the Inside the Beltway fuckwits who have never killed a terrorist and never will, think they can spend their way to victory. Get a fuckin' seeing-eye dog, CIA. Money does not win wars. But there's nothing worth fighting for more in this world than justice. Justice is always wise. And the Chieftain understood that. North China, 1938, on the goddamn mission of his life--Chieftain understood. Fight the good fight. Doc, take point. We'll move out in five mikes. Sharpen knives, count grenades and dynamite. Load sawed-offs. Remember September 11th."
Mike Tucker
from CHIEFTAIN
In the snow and ice of North China in the winter of 1938, a mercenary fights against seemingly-impossible odds, in the heart of the Chinese Revolution with Long March veterans carrying rifles and grenades and their dreams. CHIEFTAIN could not be more fierce, urgent, raw and compelling-the scintillating tale of an American mercenary at war in North China, whose journey in the Chinese Revolution later inspires clandestine mercenaries in our time. This is CHIEFTAIN--a classic journey story, an epic mercenary saga and a searing meditation on justice.
"CHIEFTAIN is dedicated to the farmers and fishermen of North China who were the soul of the Chinese Revolution up north and who remain the soul of North China in our time. And in memory of my comrades from France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Kurdistan and the United States of America who died behind Burmese Army lines and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And CHIEFTAIN is also dedicated in memory of Lieutenant Colonel Archimedes L.A. Patti, United States Army (1913-1998), Office of Strategic Services, China and General Huang Hua (1911-1943), Red Army, Chinese revolutionary, brilliant guerrilla war commander and Long March veteran."
Mike Tucker
North China
June 6, 2017
PRAISE FOR MIKE TUCKER
"SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker's prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker's short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent, THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk