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(More customer reviews)Mike Ray must have gotten his storytelling ability from his Native American heritage. Based on a true story, he nevertheless told it in a fun and easy way to read for someone like myself who lived in the Vietnam era. I like books and movies that give me more insight into what it was really like in Southeast Asia during that time. Mantracker was not only a good history lesson about what was going on in the areas around Vietnam, but also an interesting story about a child who learned to track from his Native American grandfather and as his life evolved, he ended up using his skills in a very vital way in an undeclared war in Laos. I look forward to "the rest of the story."
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From the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California to the dark, steaming jungles of Laos in Southeast Asia in the 1960s, Mantracker tells the story of Mike Wa-Heakley, whose outdoor exploits as a child lead to a life of adventure and intrigue, love and loss. Raised by his grandfather on California's North Fork Indian reservation, Mike learns the Indian ways and the history of the tribe. But it is his special gift of tracking animals and covering his trail that will play a pivotal role in his future. Mike's grandfather has been preparing him to enter a world wholly different from anything he's ever known: a fearsome world where men live without honor, women sin, and people use machines to travel and fly. In his early twenties, Mike lands a civil service job as a helicopter mechanic for Southern Airways, first in the United States, then in Laos. He is quickly swept into the murky world of military intelligence, where he earns his Indian name: Mantracker. In what turns out to be the most turbulent period of his existence, Mike risks his life—and his heart—for a chance to live on his own terms.
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