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RICHARD HERMAN THE LAST PHOENIX In memory of my mother, Mildred Leona Herman The nation that will insist in drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the think ing man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards. —Sir William Butler Contents Epigraph iii Prologue Tel heard it first. “Captain,” he called in Malay, “something’s… 1 One The formal dedication ceremony of the Matthew Pontowski Presidential Library… 11 Two The Annex, the nondescript office building where the real work… 22 Three Butler leaned against the wall in the corridor outside the… 35 Four Zack hunched over the chart spread out on the worktable. 48 Five The shiny black 1956 Ford pickup eased into a parking… 60 Six It only hurts a little, Pontowski thought as he pushed… 71 Seven Maddy’s mother, Maura O’Keith, was fixated on the TV as… 79 Eight Kamigami dropped his bergen by the door of his quarters… 95 Nine It was after midnight when the taxi stopped at the… 109 Ten The tour bus was within walking distance of Mentakab, a… 125 Eleven Don’t jump to conclusions, Bloomy cautioned herself for perhaps the… 133 Twelve The guard at the security checkpoint on the Pentagon’s main… 142 Thirteen It was the little things that impressed Kamigami as he… 153 Fourteen The woman noted the time the lights came on in… 163 Fifteen Brian Turner stuck his head into Zack’s room. “Going to… 174 Sixteen The rain slugged down, working its way through Tel’s poncho… 190 Seventeen The dark green minivan pulled to a halt on the… 203 Eighteen This isn’t as easy as it used to be, Pontowski… 211 Nineteen The silver-haired senator followed the president through the door of… 225 Twenty Maddy Turner sat at the head table in the new… 236 Twenty-One Turner was sitting in the battle cab surrounded by generals… 245 Twenty-Two The sure knowledge that the war had made her a… 259 Twenty-Three Kamigami, Tel, and Waldo were with the battalion’s headquarters company… 270 Twenty-Four This is a win? Pontowski thought. He was sitting with… 283 Twenty-Five The small group of officers from SEAC headquarters deplaned quickly… 296 Twenty-Six Zack and Brian arrived ten minutes early for the afternoon… 311 Twenty-Seven Tel wanted to warn the lieutenant that they were moving… 321 Twenty-Eight The airliners formed an unbroken procession in the night as… 329 Twenty-Nine It was still dark when the pilots gathered at the… 338 Thirty Kamigami maintained a relentless pace, pressing his men to make… 346 Thirty-One The first explosion shattered the two windows on the end… 359 Thirty-Two Smoke from the still-smoldering fire in the fuel dump drifted… 373 Thirty-Three Paul, a young airman called Spike, and Jake lined up… 382 Thirty-Four The Army staff car bringing General Mike Wilding and Secretary… 395 Thirty-Five The six team leaders who trooped down the ramp and… 408 Thirty-Six Janice Clark felt her heart pound as the C-130 taxied… 417 Thirty-Seven “We got wounded coming across the runway,” Clark said. She… 428 Thirty-Eight Twilight in the tropics is very brief, and it was… 439 Thirty-Nine The teams moving into position were little more than shadows… 451 Forty Waldo nervously paced the floor of Maintenance’s deserted shelter, frustration… 466 Epilogue Air Force One was parked at the western end of… 477 Acknowledgments About the Author Praise Other Books by Richard Herman Cover Copyright About the Publisher
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