I'll Lay you 5 to 1

I'll lay you 5: 1"I'm looking for a guy."That wasn't exactly the pick up line I expected, when I ask if you'd buy me a drink."I turned my head to see how many miles the owner had on her and fully expected them to be well past any factory warranty, besides being draped in the usual dragon embroidered long sleeved red lame pants suit to hide those miles. "Forget it. It was just a line. I don't drink while on duty. And as you damn well know, Colonel Jackson works us 24/7. His assistant Captain Miller wants to see you ASAP."Lead on Goldie Locks."Why? You know the way."Yea! but this way I get to cover your ass and watch it at the same time."* * * * * *I'll lay you 5: 1 is Dean Caldwell's unvarnished novel of drug and sex slave suppliers during the Viet Nam conflict. The demand for the commodities in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe continued as the war raged. Governments seemingly condoned the trade by adhering to a policy of benign blindness. Edwyn Roberts is a Roo surfer from Huntington Beach California who's only job offer out of "J" school in NSW was to report on shipping passing through the Straits of Malacca.