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The battery commander, Captain Kendall Pennebaker, wants more shells than the hot, wet air will lift, and the mortars find the pad every time a Chinook settles on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVương Văn Thước, commander of a Viet Cong battalion, has spent his life weighing latex in these plantations, and he watches how heavy the nets are. Haverkamp's numbers are about to turn out wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483774148674,"sku":"CHINOOK-01-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/01_Hooked_Load_ebk_cover_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435511"},{"product_id":"max-gross-chinook-country-book-2","title":"Max Gross (Chinook Country Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe lunar new year offensive has overrun a district town on the Saigon River, and the families hiding in its compound weigh the same as ammunition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChief Warrant Officer Forrest Haverkamp flies the CH-47A Heavy Date out of Phu Loi, where every Chinook in the battalion is needed to carry shells to Saigon and Long Binh. When the advisor at Bình Lộc calls for help, Haverkamp lands on the soccer field under fire and takes out the wounded, and no more than his number allows. A schoolteacher puts her pupils on the ramp and steps back to stay with her mother. His copilot, Jules Broussard, sees her stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVương Văn Thước's men hold the market and a recoilless rifle in the rice mill, and the field is in their sights. Haverkamp plans night lifts in the cool air at minimum fuel. The advisor asks him to overload, and Haverkamp says no and tells him why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483776213058,"sku":"CHINOOK-02-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/02_Max_Gross_ebk_cover_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435543"},{"product_id":"burning-rotor-chinook-country-book-3","title":"Burning Rotor (Chinook Country Book 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelicopters are going down in the clearings west of Lai Khe, and every time a Chinook comes in to lift one out, a trap is waiting at the hover.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChief Warrant Officer Forrest Haverkamp flies the CH-47A Heavy Date out of Phu Loi on recovery missions, carrying downed Hueys and gunships out of the Trapezoid on his hook. The battalion has adopted his rule: a security platoon goes in overnight and the lift comes at first light in the cool air. Then the wrecks start blowing up, a Huey falls off the hook into the bamboo, and Haverkamp lays every recovery out on a map on the revetment wall and sees the pattern is his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVương Văn Thước reads the rule as well as Haverkamp does. When the gunship of Abel Tunstall, the fire team leader who covers the recoveries, goes down in a grass clearing called the Bowl, Heavy Date goes in light, with no security, and the 12.7 is already there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483776245826,"sku":"CHINOOK-03-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/03_Burning_Rotor_ebk_cover_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435543"},{"product_id":"last-sling-chinook-country-book-4","title":"Last Sling (Chinook Country Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fire base on a laterite hill near the Cambodian border is closing in the rains, and the last lift out will be the heaviest.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChief Warrant Officer Forrest Haverkamp has his orders home in his pocket. He flies a new CH-47A called Second Date out of Phu Loi, with Elam Coldiron as flight engineer and Hosea Pettway on the ramp gun. The ceiling sits on the hill, the big crane helicopter cancels, and the division wants every shell accounted for while the infantry wait on the pad under mortar fire. No Chinook can lift the 155s, stripped or not, and Captain Kendall Pennebaker will not leave his last 105 while it is covering the rear guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVương Văn Thước has learned the sound a Chinook makes at the edge of its power. His men never fire at an empty aircraft. They are waiting for the heavy one, and Haverkamp has to decide what goes on the hook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483776278594,"sku":"CHINOOK-04-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/04_Last_Sling_ebk_cover_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435544"}],"url":"https:\/\/whitemountainpress.com\/collections\/chinook-country-series.oembed","provider":"White Mountain Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}