{"title":"Swift Water Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifty-foot aluminum Swift boats, built to patrol the coast, sent up rivers they were never designed for. Follow Five-Eight and her crew along the Mekong Delta and the Gulf of Thailand coast.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"swift-patrol-swift-water-book-1","title":"Swift Patrol (Swift Water Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe tax collector on the Ông Đốc gives receipts, and his latest one was pinned to the shirt of a dead interpreter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieutenant (junior grade) Gatewood commands Five-Eight, a fifty-foot aluminum Swift boat checking the fishing fleets off the Ông Đốc river mouth in the Gulf of Thailand. He comes from Iowa, which has no ocean, and he calls boardings over the radio like a ballgame. His boat captain, Villarreal, chews coffee beans and takes the helm without asking. Teasley reads the radar, Fenn rides the twin fifties, Yoakum always goes first, and Moody keeps the diesels running.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen their interpreter, Tốt, is found tied to a stake-net pole with a tax receipt on his shirt. The river calls the man who did it Ông Đáy, Mister Stake-Net. When the staff orders Swift raids up the rivers, Gatewood volunteers Five-Eight and Six-Two. The French charts are wrong, the bar dries on a tide he does not know, and a boat built for swell must now fight in a ditch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300419821634,"sku":"SWIFT-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_Swift_Patrol_ebk_cover_hull58_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435911"},{"product_id":"coastline-run-swift-water-book-2","title":"Coastline Run (Swift Water Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive-Eight’s skipper talks on the radio like a ballgame announcer, and someone in the burned forest is listening.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieutenant (junior grade) Gatewood and the crew of Five-Eight work the U Minh coast from the LST Terrell County, carrying Vietnamese Marines into creeks to dig out weapons caches. Moody is back from Japan with new pink skin on his hands and a frying pan clamped to the starboard engine manifold. Teasley is teaching a mynah bird named Senator to talk. Villarreal reminds his skipper that Mister Bascombe just said “Five-Eight, boarding” and hung up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fishing junks on this coast look like the weapons junks, and some carry guns under the nets. A porter boy swims out to the boat shouting “Chiêu hồi” and hands over a tax chit with the real name of Ông Đáy on it. Then Gatewood takes Five-Eight and Six-Two up a creek after Marines cut off with their wounded, and the staff in Cam Ranh asks for him to be relieved. Ashore, a man with headphones writes down every word Five-Eight says.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300420018242,"sku":"SWIFT-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_Coastline_Run_ebk_cover_hull58_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435911"},{"product_id":"missing-boat-swift-water-book-3","title":"Missing Boat (Swift Water Book 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA holiday truce is on, Six-Two is gone, and Gatewood has orders to stay out of the river.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieutenant (junior grade) Gatewood keeps Five-Eight off the Ông Đốc mouth with a truce order folded in his shirt pocket. Fire only if fired upon. Villarreal is back aboard with a paper sack of coffee beans, Brackett is the new man who swims, and Teasley’s mynah, Senator, has learned to key the radio and call Lorimer on Eight-Six. When a rifleman opens up from a line of family sampans, Gatewood holds his fire and lays his whole boat broadside between the rifle and the lanterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Six-Two is taken on the river. Her crew are prisoners somewhere in the U Minh, and two long furrows in the mud show where her hull was towed upstream. Commander Brandt says recovery is a province matter. Quarles makes Gatewood repeat the order over the radio, word for word. That night Five-Eight crosses the bar with no lights and heads up the river.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300420051010,"sku":"SWIFT-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_Missing_Boat_ebk_cover_hull58_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435912"},{"product_id":"last-patrol-south-swift-water-book-4","title":"Last Patrol South (Swift Water Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt the bottom of the country, an outpost full of families is closed in, and Five-Eight is too big for its river.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieutenant (junior grade) Gatewood takes Five-Eight south to the cape to guard Khang’s junks, with three Vietnamese trainees aboard, Cường, Kiệt and Nhạn, learning the boat from Villarreal, Fenn and Moody. Brackett touches Yoakum’s water skis, still lashed to the cabin top, every time they cross a bar. The first morning, the fishing floats drifting toward the anchorage turn out to be oil drums, and one goes up higher than the radar mast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUp Cape Creek, Sergeant Snodgrass and the outpost commander, Quới, hold the Rạch Mũi wall with about two hundred people inside it, soldiers, families and the whole hamlet. The tree line is full of the enemy, the bar is too shallow for a loaded Swift, and Châu Kiến Nhơn is walking that bar at low water with a stake-net pole. Then the weather turns, and orders come to give up the cape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300420083778,"sku":"SWIFT-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_Patrol_South_ebk_cover_hull58_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435912"}],"url":"https:\/\/whitemountainpress.com\/collections\/swift-water-series.oembed","provider":"White Mountain Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}