BETRAYAL

It is now July 1972 at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base and Captain Mitch d’Capua and his wife, Sharon, are experiencing severe strain in their relationship. Married less than a year, Mitch’s sudden and unexpected orders to Southeast Asia leave them both struggling. Mitch is being ground down by the tension of combat and an unrelenting schedule of stressful and unforgiving missions. The pressure on the CIA base at Pak Se continues to mount along with the losses of men and machines. The personnel of the 7th Airborne Command & Control Squadron can only try to stem the tide of North Vietnamese troops and material flowing down the Ho Chi Minh Trail and into South Vietnam. The battle of An Loc is underway and the horror of the ‘Verdun of Southeast Asia’ is taking its toll.
Sharon dismisses her loyal and devoted companion, Joi, infuriating Mitch. The wife, heavily drugged by the charming and ruthless Friedrich, cannot know that only her servant’s timely intervention saved her mistress from a short and brutal life as a drug-addicted, sex slave. The dead criminals will be telling no one ; but the Royal Thai Police are on the case. Sharon’s jealousy of Joi’s devotion to her jai dee, Captain Mitch, clouds her judgment sufficiently to let expedience rule over virtue. Now it remains only for the Deputy Chief of Security to continue to subvert her boss to gain what she craves most, complete control.
Joi, cast out of the d’Capua’s household, tries to return to Udorn Air Base and her old job as a menial hooch girl, only to be driven away by the spiteful Mamasan. Sole supporter of her family, Joi, abandoned and alone, once again faces the soul-crushing choice between degradation and starvation.