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The realities of a futile campaign are portrayed in this novel of the Vietnam War. The action ranges from the White House to the jungle, from the American Embassy in Saigon to the front lines. Michael Peterson has also written "The Immortal Dragon". If you're looking for a Vietnam War novel, but you don't want to wade in too deep, this is perfect lightweight fare. Think of it as a cross between Tom Clancy and Graham Greene (see Orrin's review of The Quiet American)with the civil servant as superhero trying to navigate a moral cesspool. Bradley Lawrence Marshall is the blue blood, war hero, diplomat who is sent to Vietnam as the personal emissary of President Johnson, to find a way out. In country, he meets with real figures like General Westmoreland, who tries to convince him everything is copacetic. But he also meets folks like: his driver, Corporal Mead, a decent though violent American lad of ambiguous sexuality, who is sick of the war; Lacouture, a flamboyant, Guy Burgess-like, Frenchman who sells information to all sides and loves Mead; and the insidious CIA station chief, Wilson Abbot Lord, who lives to fight the Communists and, fearing that Marshall will end the war, plots to kill him. And it's all set against the backdrop of the Tet Offensive. The whole premise, of Johnson and a bureaucrat secretly planning an exit strategy, doesn't withstand much scrutiny and the stereotypes and clichés run rampant. But taken on its own terms, as a sort of politico-military potboiler with only mild pretensions of addressing issues in any serious way, it succeeds pretty well. It's certainly a more diverting read than many of the more critically acclaimed novels of the war.… (més)
I Vita Huset övertygar President Lyndon Johnson ambassadör Bradley Marshall om att han ska åka till Vietnam. Bilda sig en egen uppfattning om läget. Och kommer Marshall fram till att U.S.A. bör dra sig ur kriget, svär Johnson att lyda hans råd.
På den amerikanska ambassaden i Saigon sitter Wilson Abbot Lord, chefen för CIA i Vietnam, och bestämmer sig för att det inte finns någon annan utväg - han måste döda presidentens liberale rådgivare som är på väg. Alltför mycket står på spel, alltför många liv är redan spillda för att dra sig ur nu.
Och på höjd 742 i närheten av Khe Sanh i den vietnamesiska djungeln, ber fänrik Luke Bishop stridsledningen om att förflyttas. Höjden är omgiven av fienden, det är bara en fråga om dagar innan hans tjugo soldater kommer att övermannas och dödas. Stridsledningen avslår hans begäran utan motivering.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. --Ecclesiastes
Alas, said the king, that ever this unhappy war was begun. -Le Morte d'Arthur
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To Patty, who suffered all my wounds. To Clayton and Todd, whose suffering, I pray, is only in my nightmares. To the dead. And to those whose suffering cannot be relieved.
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Looking out through the French doors of the Oval Office, Marshall watched the President pad through the Rose Garden, appearing as out of place as a polar bear.
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They did not hold hands as the plane taxied, but sat stiffly upright as though posed for an old photograph, a grandniece of the last emperor of Vietnam and a sharecropper's boy from Arkansas, staring out the window at the land rushing by.
The realities of a futile campaign are portrayed in this novel of the Vietnam War. The action ranges from the White House to the jungle, from the American Embassy in Saigon to the front lines. Michael Peterson has also written "The Immortal Dragon". If you're looking for a Vietnam War novel, but you don't want to wade in too deep, this is perfect lightweight fare. Think of it as a cross between Tom Clancy and Graham Greene (see Orrin's review of The Quiet American)with the civil servant as superhero trying to navigate a moral cesspool. Bradley Lawrence Marshall is the blue blood, war hero, diplomat who is sent to Vietnam as the personal emissary of President Johnson, to find a way out. In country, he meets with real figures like General Westmoreland, who tries to convince him everything is copacetic. But he also meets folks like: his driver, Corporal Mead, a decent though violent American lad of ambiguous sexuality, who is sick of the war; Lacouture, a flamboyant, Guy Burgess-like, Frenchman who sells information to all sides and loves Mead; and the insidious CIA station chief, Wilson Abbot Lord, who lives to fight the Communists and, fearing that Marshall will end the war, plots to kill him. And it's all set against the backdrop of the Tet Offensive. The whole premise, of Johnson and a bureaucrat secretly planning an exit strategy, doesn't withstand much scrutiny and the stereotypes and clichés run rampant. But taken on its own terms, as a sort of politico-military potboiler with only mild pretensions of addressing issues in any serious way, it succeeds pretty well. It's certainly a more diverting read than many of the more critically acclaimed novels of the war.
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På den amerikanska ambassaden i Saigon sitter Wilson Abbot Lord, chefen för CIA i Vietnam, och bestämmer sig för att det inte finns någon annan utväg - han måste döda presidentens liberale rådgivare som är på väg. Alltför mycket står på spel, alltför många liv är redan spillda för att dra sig ur nu.
Och på höjd 742 i närheten av Khe Sanh i den vietnamesiska djungeln, ber fänrik Luke Bishop stridsledningen om att förflyttas. Höjden är omgiven av fienden, det är bara en fråga om dagar innan hans tjugo soldater kommer att övermannas och dödas. Stridsledningen avslår hans begäran utan motivering.