Staked Goat

CUDDY'S BEEN DOWN A LOT OF MEAN STREETS--BUT DEATH IS NEVER EASY

Body found on Beacon Hill, victim unknown. The police closed the case--but for private detective John Cuddy, it was the beginning of a trip into hell. The victim was his best buddy from Vietnam. One look at the mutilated body with its-telltale broken finger, and he got a fast, inexorable message.

From Boston's seediest, precinct to back street. Pittsburgh to the heart of t e Pentagon, Cuddy goes beyond the law to avenge his friend. Forced underground, he probes the army's secret files to track a cult of killers operating long after the fall of Saigon. One of them killed his friend--and now he'll feel the hard, cold` steel of vengeance.