Book Description: Sometimes you just try to get along, a little guy in a big pond. You're young, in the center of your luck (the Vietnamese believe in fate, you know), doing okay. And then love shows up. She's the most unlikely woman in the world, but somehow, from that time on, everything you relied on to get through your day is blown to splinters. Hey, that's love and it happens all the time, I suppose. But for me, the time was the mid-60's, and the place was Saigon. Dangerous times, and a dangerous place to lose my head over a girl gone so bad I'd sworn I was going to blow her away. I had my job, Top Secret Codeword crap over at the White Shack on Ton Son Nhut. I had my sworn enemies, the C.O. and a dopey spook who were convinced I was dealing grass to the righteous. (They were right about that. I didn't say I was an angel.) But above all, I suppose, I had attitude. I felt betrayed. Everywhere I looked was a blank space where someone I'd counted on had deserted me. Friends, family, country...what a joke! And Just when you think you've got nothing to live for, something crazy happens. The zips have a word for it, they call it "dinky dao". It means 'bats in the head'. You know, CRAZYHEAD.Author's Bio:During Vietnam, John Klawitter left a graduate fellowship in English at UCLA and enlisted in the army to discover what all the anger and shouting was really about. He studied the Vietnamese language at the Defense Language Institute and the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, and was stationed as an intelligence cryptographer and linguist in Washington, D.C., and then Saigon. In the years since, he has become a successful Hollywood writer, producer, and director, working for Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, NBC, Hanna-Barbera, and many other companies. His writing credits include the screenplay adaptations of the novels Styx and Hobberdy Dick. Crazyhead is his first novel.Quote 1: "The one book to read when you think you've read it a
Multi-talented John Klawitter is a writer, producer, film & video director, song lyric writer and published author of fiction and non fiction books. Based in Hollywood, he's worked for major studios, indy companies and run his own production company. He's written and produced for CBS, NBC, Disney, The Disney Channel, Paramount, Universal, Atlantis Productions, and many others. He's also worked on animation projects for Disney, Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Phil Mendez Productions, Zoiyu Productions (Japan), Pink Planet Productions (Holland) and Franke Films (Finland). He has directed short films featuring a wide range of stars and personalities, including Bill Cosby, Ali MacGraw, Jane Alexander, Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Bradbury, George Plimpton, Leslie Nielsen, and many others.
His film writing includes the political documentaries Scene: Politic (EMMY AWARD)and World Cities; the Television Specials The Great American Dreammobile, Le Mans, The Adventures of Sports Goofy, and Here comes Sam (The Olympic Eagle). He has also adapted several novels to screenplay format, most notably HOBBERDY DICK by K.M. Briggs, STYX by Christopher Hyde, MONSTER TALES by Phil Mendez, and his own novel CRAZYHEAD.
