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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...

"Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller...An insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people, and its enemies." - Orlando Sentinel
Former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner has just gotten used to the early retirement forced on him after the disastrous end of his last case when his old commanding officer asks him to return for one final mission: investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam...

"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been...

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying a life of anonymity in Key West when a private detective named Costello comes around with prying questions. Reacher conceals his identity, but is no less annoyed by the situation. Even more troublesome, Costello turns up dead soon after with his fingertips sliced off. Left with several questions, Reacher hits the road to find some answers. Answers that will lead back to New York, to an alluring, but untrustworthy...

Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.

Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled

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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.

This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations

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Beaumont is taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he's ever faced. His past collides with his present, explore the staggering cost of war and the debts we owe those who served in the Vietnam War, and those in uniform today.

Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.

Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.

When Temperance Brennan is called to investigate the death of a man who drowned in the midst of a bizarre sex act, she knows the case will be anything but ordinary. However, when the victim is identified as John Lowery, a man who was reportedly killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam over 40 years ago, Tempe sets off to Hawaii to find some answers. There, Tempe is given another case when the body of a young boy washes ashore and appears to be the...