An early post-Vietnam novel that was written when not quite a post-Vietnam was post yet. In a lot of ways, this novel feels like a very American, very 1970s sequel to Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. We begin in Vietnam where an American war correspondent (free-lance) starts investigating some underworld leads, which takes him to the southeast Asia heroin (and other drugs) trade that punctuates a lot of what happened in the Vietnam war. We find ourselves back in the US at other times. What is […]