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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:"Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller...An insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people, and its enemies." - Orlando Sentinel Former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner has just gotten used to the early retirement forced on him after the disastrous end of his last case when his old commanding officer asks him to return for one final mission: investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam thirty years before. Brenner reluctantly accepts out of curiosity and loyalty...and maybe a touch of boredom. He won't be bored for long. Back in Vietnam, Brenner meets expatriate Susan Weber, a woman as exotic, sensual, and dangerous as the nation of her voluntary exile. Brenner is plunged into a world of corruption, lethal double cross, and haunted memories-as he's suddenly thrust back into a war that neither he nor his country ever really stopped fighting..… (more)
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*The book is easily 300-400 pages too long.
* For the first 400 pages almost nothing related to the main story really happens.
* Much of it reads like a travelogue of the authors visit to Vietnam.
* main character Paul Brenner is
* The other main character- Susan Weber is not very believable, and also annoying.
* The ongoing history lesson of first the French and then the American military involvement was excellent.
* The descriptions of places and events was excellent.
Nearly all of the supporting characters are far more interesting.