This thriller, set during the 1968 Tet offensive, takes the reader inside the troubled mind of a CIA operative as he decides whether to follow orders to murder his friend, a French double agent.
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Novels about the Vietnam War tend to overlook the long, sad history of the French in Indo-China. However, Simpson's latest thriller (after Tiger in the Barbed Wire), tells the story of Robert Fraser, a career CIA officer stationed in Vietnam since before the defeat of the French by the Communists at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 (an event that Simpson, a former U.S. Information Agency officer in Vietnam, chronicled in last year's Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot). Fraser learns that his old friend Arnaud Caze, a former French officer who now provides intelligence to the Americans, has been named as a double agent who has sold valuable data to the North Vietnamese. Now Fraser must see to it that Caze is ``terminated with extreme prejudice.'' As he struggles with his conscience and plans his strategy for the killing, Frazer's memories of Caze provide a richly textured picture of life in the tortured, battle-torn nation as the war builds up to the Tet offensive of 1968. In addition to examining the pervasive effects of the French/Indo-Chinese culture on Vietnam, Simpson offers a vivid description of unconventional warfare; this isn't a pleasant read, but it is an authoritative, and cautionary, one.
Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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The late Howard R. Simpson was the author of eight other well-received novels. He also wrote several nonfiction books, including Someone Else's War and Dien Bien Phu
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A BIT OF COOLNESS remains at dawn but fades quickly and the horizon appears as a dark brush stroke across the South China Sea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Vung Tau, General Doan, Special Forces, Tan Son Nhut, Arnaud Caze, North Vietnamese, Binh Xuyen, Colonel Khang, Dien Bien Phu, Cao Dai, Hong Kong, Jeff Marston, Popular Forces, Captain Minh, Dong Khanh, Mekong Delta, Pete Zarski, World War, Cuu Loi, Phoenix Program, White Horse New!
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Vung Tau, General Doan, Special Forces, Tan Son Nhut, Arnaud Caze, North Vietnamese, Binh Xuyen, Colonel Khang, Dien Bien Phu, Cao Dai, Hong Kong, Jeff Marston, Popular Forces, Captain Minh, Dong Khanh, Mekong Delta, Pete Zarski, World War, Cuu Loi, Phoenix Program, White Horse New!
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- Very Large Consulate by Howard R. Simpson in Front Matter
- Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer by Howard R. Simpson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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