The FBI is searching for the members of an infantry unit that massacred a Vietnamese village, while the killers hunt the pilot who witnessed the massacre, a friend of ex-tennis champ and CIA operative Brad Smith.
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From Publishers Weekly
A massacre in Vietnam 25 years ago sparks attempted revenge in former tennis champ Brad Smith's fifth gritty mystery (after Breakfast at Wimbledon ). Recovering at his Montana resort from a knee injury sustained during a celebrity match, Smith receives a visit from an army intelligence officer seeking information about Kevin Green, his college tennis teammate and Vietnam comrade who supposedly died while a POW, but who was recently photographed in the Denver airport. When Smith finds the corpse of David Wentworth, Green's wartime helicopter copilot, with one ear cut off (a mutilation practiced by some American soldiers in Vietnam), he realizes that the army officer was an impostor and sets out to find Green before anyone else does. Smith roams across L.A., Kansas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Colorado before uncovering the truth about a haunting event: a massacre at Quang Xi in 1968. His final confrontation with a delusional vet suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is brutal and sadistic. High-toned moralism mars some closing passages, but for the most part Bickham offers a straightforward tale revealing the grim consequences of deaths perpetrated in the name of loyalty and honor.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-Bickham quickly involves readers in a mystery that pairs the unlikely arenas of tennis and the CIA. Brad Smith, sometime tennis player, sometime resort co-owner and manager, is abruptly carried back to his days in Vietnam when a federal agent shows up on his doorstep inquiring about Kevin Green, who was killed there-or so Brad thinks. When he attempts to find out what really happened to Kevin, he is plunged into a fast-moving adventure that puts both his former buddies and himself in jeopardy over a vendetta that has survived the war and all the intervening years, underscoring the deep feelings the Vietnam War engenders even today. The author switches voices in the narrative; readers see the story first from the avengers' point of view, hot on the trail of the last traitor, and then through Brad's eyes as he attempts to find his "dead" buddy. The conclusion is reached with breathtaking speed. The double fault is not in tennis where the faults add up, but in real life where they cancel each other out. There's a lot of violence and graphic language in this one.
Carol Fox, El Dorado High School, KS
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Carol Fox, El Dorado High School, KS
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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