Ghost on the Wire

By Jake Stratton

In Ghost on the Wire, a troubled Texas teenager is given a choice: prison or Vietnam. He chooses war-and finds himself deep behind enemy lines with MACV-SOG, a covert unit so secret its missions were denied even as they unfolded. Erik Anders joins a team that slips into Laos and Cambodia under cover of darkness, not to fight set-piece battles, but to vanish into the jungle and return with intelligence-if they return at all.

But this is no ordinary war. Every movement is calculated. Every breath measured. Erik and his team are hunted relentlessly by NVA counter-recon squads trained to track, flank, and annihilate men like him. The enemy is often only meters away-listening for the sound of a snapped twig, the click of a weapon, a breath too loud. One mistake means death, not in combat, but in silence-ambushed, outnumbered, and buried where no one will ever find them.

As missions mount and the psychological strain deepens, Erik begins to change. Comfort becomes a memory. Sleep is a threat. And survival depends on a new skill: becoming a ghost in a war that doesn't officially exist.

Ghost on the Wire is a visceral, sharply drawn military thriller about loyalty, silence, and the price of vanishing behind the wire.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F92J5H99
• ISBN13: 9798284272329
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"