It is 1968. The place is Indochina.Stacey Mckenna is no ordinary pilot. She flies the lethal skies of Laos and Cambodia in unarmed airplanes and helicopters. She is eighteen years old... an age when most of her contemporaries are still in senior high school, or are freshmen at college.She flies for Air America... the CIA's clandestine air force; flying missions that would make most pilots pale at the very thought. She is the living embodiment of the Air America slogan:"Anything, Anywhere, Anytime... Professionally."The occupation of pilot is forbidden to women of the U.S. Military  during the Vietnam War...but Stacey Mckenna is not a member of the U.S. Military. She belongs to "The Company"... the CIA.One of her fellow Air America pilots has given her a silver Morgan Dollar coin on a dog-tag chain as her lucky mascot, with which she can "Pay The Ferryman" if, one day, her luck finally runs out and she can't dodge the "Golden B-B"... the one in a million shot that has her name on it.Her adventures begin when she is posted to Vientiane, the Capital city of Laos; initially, to ferry supplies and ordnance by helicopter to the headquarters of General Vang  Pao commanding the indiginous Hmong secret army; a highly effective force, CIA-trained and supported, who were fighting against the Pathet Lao and People's Army of Vietnam during the Laotian Civil War. She wIll also be flying to many of the remote airstrip "Lima" sites all over Laos.