"Post 1, American Embassy... We are under attack...I say again...We are under attack..." ...the six Piranhas immediately executed their ambush reaction drill and blasted away at the river bank
with every available automatic weapon firing at full cyclic rate. The boats powered at full speed while J-turning and dodging to avoid the unrelenting FARC enemy fire. They circled the tugs and
barges...bows flying up over the water...splashing, spraying, and crossing their own wakes in controlled chaos... ...as the AC-47 gunship cleared the south end of the runway, the dark sky
exploded with the intense brilliance of parallel blazing streams of bright green and red tracer rounds that reached out to heaven like fiery tentacles of death. Immediately, the aircraft veered
sharply to the left with its port engine on fire... "East of the Orteguaza" is the gripping and action-packed story of an American military advisor operating from a military counterdrug base in
the heart of the largest cocaine producing region in southern Colombia. His world is about to change...
