Exclusive First Listen: CRY HAVOC — Chapter 3

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The wait is over. Jack Carr’s new novel—CRY HAVOC—is out now. Chapter 3 drops us back into South Vietnam on January 27, 1968, where Tom Reece, Frank Quinn, and their Montagnard teammate Amiuh—run an off-the-books “hunting expedition” outside Phu Bai. These unsanctioned testing-and-evaluation missions sharpen skills and stress-test gear: suppressed Sten guns, silenced High Standards, and new Starlight setups. What begins as a quiet remain overnight site near a jungle trail pivots hard when the team encounters a seven-man NVA element with a courier holding a message that just might turn the tide of the war. Brought to life by the legendary voice of Ray Porter, this excerpt is pure MACV-SOG grit—movement, patience, and violence of action—where a single silent ambush can flip the intelligence picture on its head. “Cry ‘Havoc!,’ and let slip the frogs of war.” Buy the audiobook, https://bit.ly/CryHavocAudio Order your copy of CRY HAVOC, HERE. Copyright: Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from CRY HAVOC by Jack Carr, read by Ray Porter. Copyright © 2025 by Tomahawk Creative, Inc. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. FOLLOW SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Instagram:@simon.audio TikTok: @simon.audio Threads: @simon.audio X: @SimonAudio Facebook: @SimonAudio FOLLOW RAY PORTER Instagram:@the.ray.porter Facebook: @NarratorRayPorter FOLLOW JACK CARR Instagram: @JackCarrUSA X: @JackCarrUSA Facebook: @JackCarr YouTube: @JackCarrUSA SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/cry-havoc/ Bravo Company Manufacturing - https://bravocompanyusa.com/ and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA THE SIGs of Jack Carr: Visit https://www.sigsauer.com/ and on Instagram @sigsauerinc Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:00.0	This episode of the Danger Close podcast is brought to you by Cry Havoc,
0:04.2	from New York Times number one bestselling author, Jack Carr.
0:08.6	Cry Havoc, a Tom Rees thriller. Order Now.
0:16.6	Chapter 3
0:17.7	South Vietnam, January 27, 1968.
0:25.0	Tom Reese and Frank Quinn had conducted off-the-book's missions before.
0:29.7	Accompanied by Amu, their Montagnard team leader, they called them hunting expeditions,
0:35.0	and used them as testing and evaluation ops, which indeed they were.
0:40.0	By venturing into the jungle just beyond the gates of Fubai, helicopter insertions or extractions
0:46.0	were unnecessary. These missions were a way to shake out new gear before going across the fence
0:52.1	into Laos, or in this case, a way to assess if conducting
0:56.5	missions armed only with suppressed 9mm stenn submachine guns and 22 high-stand
1:02.9	silenced pistols was a viable option. This way, just two miles from the base, if they got into
1:10.3	trouble, they could make it back
1:12.4	to Fob 1 for beers at the Greenbury Lounge before senior-level leaders were any the wiser.
1:19.5	The intent was to develop silent ambush techniques that would not draw the attention of
1:25.0	nearby NVA units when extraction could be hours away.
1:29.6	Previous hunting expeditions assessed cave and tunnel infiltration methods,
1:34.3	using the rock walls to ricochet rounds into unsuspecting enemy fighters.
1:39.3	On others, they configured M16s with new starlight scopes
1:43.3	to test them out against living, breathing targets.
1:48.3	No messages were sent to CCN in Denang or MacVSog headquarters in Saigon for approvals,
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