The Last Hookers [Hardcover]

Carle E. Dunn (Author), William Atkinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2001

The Last Hookers is intrigue, danger, action, and romance about aviators in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos Colonel Dunn, awarded Distinguished Flying Cross, shines light into dark corners of the NSA and CIA during covert operations in Southeast Asia.

Editorial Reviews

Review

I feel this is the definitive story of Army Aviation and Vietnam. -- LTC Carle E. Dunn, USA - Retired, Author

I wondered why our soldiers had to die in Vietnam. This book gave me the answers and explained why. -- Joe M. Hightower, Sr., Reader, November 21, 2001

The Last Hookers is an outstanding job by Colonel Dunn. His events are accurate and excellently detailed. -- Lieutenant General James Hollingsworth, USA-Ret.

From the Publisher

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA—The Vietnam War catalyzed an entire generation of Americans, dividing them along pro-war and anti-war lines. Aviator turned author Lieutenant Colonel Carle E. Dunn spent three years researching recently declassified documents to provide details of how the United States became embroiled in Southeast Asia. He presents a candid look at United State’s leadership in his new book The Last Hookers (now available from 1stBooks Library)

Using fictional characters, Dunn, now retired, traces the roles of France, Great Britain, North Vietnam, and the United States in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, North and South Vietnam from 1938 to 1972. He details actual events such as Operation Vulture, President Truman’s plan to use atomic weapons against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) at Dien Bien Phu. This plan called for the subsequent use of atomic weapons against Communist China and the USSR. President Eisenhower gave the plan serious consideration.

Colonel Dunn weaves a story of lies, deceit, espionage and romance based on historical events. Exciting, entertaining, and emotionally wrought, The Last Hookers is the most profound look into U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia since the war’s end.

From humble beginnings to honored war veteran, Colonel Dunn has spent most of his life in the military. Enlisting in the South Carolina National Guard, while working his way through college, he later served in the Army Reserve. Commissioned a second lieutenant, Dunn attended Field Artillery Officers Basic Course at Fort Still, Oklahoma. Upon graduation, the Army canceled Dunn’s orders to Korea. He stayed at Fort Still to teach gunnery, and was the first Second Lieutenant ever to teach that course. Next, he completed helicopter flight school and went on to serve during the Vietnam conflict. Highly decorated and widely published, Dunn now resides in South Carolina. The Last Hookers is his first full-length novel.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 664 pages
• Publisher: 1st Book Library (October 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759655936
• ISBN-13: 978-0759655935
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,239,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Hookers, April 20, 2002

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Del Belanger "DCB" (Plano, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Last Hookers (Hardcover)

Carle E. Dunn has done the hookers and anyone who is interested in what really happened in Vietnam a great service in pointing out the good and the bad, the brave and not so brave, the strife and the glory. Having "been there, done that", the book brings out the history, the fights, the family of yesteryear long buried. It should not, for our brave who have given their all should not be forgotten. This book brings it well into the fore-front.

Carle clearly separates a bad war from the good warriors who faught it. The Last Hookers suggest a much more positive view of not just the outcome of the war, but also of American morale, competence, and performance. A must read.

Ex Hooker, (Recovery)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Takes You There!, December 11, 2001

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"irawl" (Utah, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Hookers (Hardcover)

I couldn't put this book down. It has everything a person could want in a thriller and most of the things really happened. The details make you believe you are actually living the events. Carle Dunn covered World War II and included attempts on Hitler's life; he detailed the French Resistance fighters; the battle of Britain; Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia; Ho Chi Minh's murderous rise to Communist power while killing tens of thousands of his own people who opposed him. He showed how the U.S. supplied this killer with weapons like artillery, vehicles, ammunition which a great deal of it was used against our soldiers when the U.S. got involved. He does all this with the lives of people from Switzerland, Germany, France, England and the United States. He even shows how the tribes who lived in the jungles became Special Operation Forces for the CIA. There is a bunch about helicopters and their part in the Vietnam War. Sometimes I could almost hear the rotor blades turning and bullets hitting the ships. I sure hope he writes another book. I will be first in line to get it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensitive Love of Women For Their Men, December 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Last Hookers (Hardcover)

There are three great romances in this book. Two are about the love required by women for men who have to sacrifice for their countries. They must wait for their men and keep their love alive through letters. The third is a Vietnamese girl who is to become a nun until another love arrives in the form of a French Legionaire. Torn between either becoming a bride of Christ or the bride of a man tears at her soul.

Each romance will cause a reader to weep as the character's lives and loves extend over almost half a century. Filled with raw emotion each will, at times, cause laughter, tears and simple smiles at the pleasure and mystery of new love to a young girl. There is romantic conflict when a love has to be denied to preserve a holy committment to another. This book is not your typical war story. It is a big love story that just happens to take place during a war which creates an ultimate truth in their love lives.

If you think Gone With The Wind was a love story, read this book to learn what a true love is and what depth it can go.