"Diverting The Buddha" is a high-octane thriller set in Vietnam during a time when unrestrained American intelligence agencies sabotaged Democracy! It is a get down and get dirty fictionalized walk along the reality street on which the battle for Vietnamese hearts and minds raged. The novel, set in the historic city of Hue, chronicles the lives of two Vietnamese and two Americans, four beings caught in a power play they can neither understand nor control. In the end all four wander into harm's way because each misses key pieces to an infamous picture puzzle.
In September of 1966 senior American intelligence officials felt elation; in just nine months they had defeated a pro-democracy movement, killed or locked up all serious opposition and staged a successful electoral coup d'état. Today, a new novel looks at the dirty tricks played on the Vietnamese people back then and sheds some light on a Black Ops effort to extend the war at any cost. The program's success led directly to 3 million dead Asians. "Diverting The Buddha" is a cautionary tale with subtle undertones that, due to the recent American Presidential Election, reverberate with thunderous intensity.
