What happens to people who go to war? Meet Craig, trained by the CIA but now a liability to be lost in the ambiguity of war. He befriends an inscrutible Buddhist Time reporter and falls in love with a Swedish nurse while stationed in Saigon but has seen too much and hunted by a mysterious Max connected to the agency responsible for his delivery to Vietnam. It is an extraordinay story filled with unforgettab ...Täielik kirjeldus
What happens to people who go to war? Meet Craig, trained by the CIA but now a liability to be lost in the ambiguity of war. He befriends an inscrutible Buddhist Time reporter and falls in love with a Swedish nurse while stationed in Saigon but has seen too much and hunted by a mysterious Max connected to the agency responsible for his delivery to Vietnam. It is an extraordinay story filled with unforgettable people, it will captivate you--as it reveals the truth about what happens when cultures collide. Craig is giong, out of the ordinary, odd, in Vietnamese, a poetic elegy to veterans of all wars and a deep examination of the human heart. It is told by an anonymous survivor of the Vietnam war, part confession and revelation, part contrition and repentance. His story is woven through a man he trained with in basic and AIT and fought beside in the remote jungles bordering Laos and Cambodia. His story of Craig, trance like, is of a man gifted and flawed from a vague past told in broken pieces and like the teller, a captive of a nightmarish war, both unable to find their place, 'back in the world.'