This is one of four stories written by Mark Raymond Corrigan to add color, flavor and insights about the Vietnam era and the Cold War when the United States and Russia were looking at each other eyeball to eyeball with their fingers on the trigger of Nuclear Weapons. "Soft Touch" was O'Neil's Radio Call Sign when he was running the Special Operations Sniper Team in Vietnam. O'Neil becomes a Soft Touch when he may have sold this soul to the devil for the key to unlock Jayne's self imposed psychological isolation. The devil's price requires O'Neil to kill the Southeast Asian Drug Lord who is providing 20 dollars worth of 98$ pure heroin to the American GI's on the streets of South Vietnam for only a dollar.