THE LONG RANGE

A War Novel Of Long Range Recon Patrols

De: William Ferrier

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Six men. Twelve days. Triple-canopy jungle. No one who wasn't there will ever know what happened.

March 1968. Daniel Croft — callsign Ghost — inserts into the Central Highlands of Vietnam as point man for a six-man LRRP team. His job is simple and impossible: move through enemy territory without being seen, gather intelligence no conventional unit can reach, and bring his men home.

Ghost is the best point man in F Company, 51st Infantry. He reads the jungle the way he read elk country in the Pryor Mountains of Montana — not by thinking, but by being present in a way most men never learn. He knows the ground. He knows his team. He trusts his read.

What he doesn't know is whether trusting his read is the same as being right.

Over twelve days of movement through heat, mud, leeches, elephant grass, and the specific silence of a jungle that has been watching you since you landed — Ghost will make four decisions he doesn't report to his team leader. Small decisions. Reasonable ones. Decisions that feel certain from the inside.

One of them will cost a man four millimeters.

The Long Range is a novel about precision and its limits — about what it means to be responsible for the things the men behind you don't know, and what happens when your certainty and your accuracy turn out to be two different things. From the Montana mountains to the firebase at Pleiku to a Wednesday night group in a church basement in Hardin, Ghost will spend the next year learning what the jungle kept and what it gave back — and whether those are different things.

For readers of Tim O'Brien, Karl Marlantes, and Denis Johnson. A literary Vietnam War novel about silence, six-man teams, and the weight of coming home.