DescriptionVietnamese beauty Anh is brash and self-promoting - good qualities in California's Little Saigon, especially if you have to support an ever-extending family like Anh's. Until recently Anh got money through tips from a gambling lawyer, but now he's disappeared and she turns to his tough Anglo secretary, Jana, for help. Jana needs money as badly as Anh does so they partner up in a bogus law practice. The scam is so successful it attracts the attention of the vicious Nep gang, which wants a piece of the action. Amidst this turmoil Anh meets a Vietnam vet who knew her in Saigon. He offers her a new life, but first she must enlist Jana's help in paying a blood debt from her past. This is a story of community and unforgettable characters that describes the experience of recent immigrants with tragicomic precision.
DescriptionWilliam F. Buckley's best-selling Blackford Oakes novels have set a new standard for stylish espionage entertainment. Now Buckley sends Oakes on his most thrilling adventure yet. The year is 1964. Faced with a hard-hitting presidential campaign and a deteriorating situation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson dispatches Oakes and a swashbuckling soldier of fortune named Tucker on secret missions to Southeast Asia. Tucker is to figure out how to interdict military traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Oakes is to supervise a secret operation in the Gulf of Tonkin, an operation that will give Johnson the excuse he needs for a greater U.S. military role in Vietnam. Filled with the intrigue, wit, and historical detail that have distinguished the previous novels of the series, Tucker's Last Stand is William F. Buckley, Jr. at his inimitable best.
DescriptionPeter Huchthausen, a river patrol officer on Vietnam's Mekong River Delta in 1967, rescued a badly wounded Vietnamese child, Nguyen Thi Lung. He and his men arranged for the girl's treatment and education, only to lose track of her when her town was overr…
DescriptionDeep within the Vietnamese jungle lies Floating City, a secret empire built on riches and murder. Nicholas Linnear, the hero of Eric Lustbader's The Ninja and The Kaisho, is assigned to penetrate this evil domain. To accomplish his mission, Linnear must defeat his nemesis, an American Vietnam vet who controls the city with the Torch - the ultimate tool of darkness. In his struggle to strike at the heart of the violence and intrigue, Linnear prowls through the jungles of Southeast Asia and the corridors of power in Tokyo and Washington. All the while he walks the fine line that separates good from evil, sexuality from death, and love from betrayal.
DescriptionAnh Vu Sawyer is an acclaimed Christian author. The poignant memoir of her escape from war-torn Vietnam, Song of Saigon has touched the hearts of countless readers the world over. Anh Vu Sawyer was a 20-year-old medical student in Saigon in March of 1975. As the rumors spread of an imminent siege, she was certain that even if the Viet Cong took the city, her family would be safe in God's hands. All they needed was a way out. Tracing her family's harrowing journey out of Vietnam and to the United States, Anh offers a powerful example of the strength of faith and God's enduring grace. This profoundly affecting true story of one family's experiences and survival in the face of enormous hardships is heart-wrenching at times, and joyous at others. With a dramatic narration by Christina Moore, Song of Saigon is a thrilling listen.
DescriptionSurviving a lifetime of her father's secrets, schemes, and whispers of veiled conspiracies, Maggie Malone has always felt invisible to him, and to the world that could never understand her. And now she must trace the steps of her ghost-father to find out…
DescriptionThommo returns from Vietnam to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He begins to develop all kinds of physical and mental problems, and thinks it must only be him until he finds he is not alone. Ten mates, all who remain of his platoon who fought and died in the Battle of Long Tan, are affected the same way. Now Thommo and his mates are 11 angry men out for revenge. They rope in an ex-Viet Cong with 'special skills' and his own secret agenda. They're the 'Dirty Dozen', just like the movie. Only it's real life, and they're so screwed up they couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. That is, until a woman of character steps in. Wendy's infant daughter is dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant. Hell hath no fury, as she sets out to mould this bunch of ex-jungle fighters into a unit that will fight for justice, by fair means or foul.
DescriptionAt the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force". The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop, the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would b…
DescriptionJohn Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife, when he befriends a young woman with a checkered past. When the past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and sets out to track down the men responsible. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man knows the terrain around that camp better than anyone: John Kelly. Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Without Remorse, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his trademarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters.
DescriptionThis production features a special audio introduction by Nelson DeMille. There is a name carved into the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., of an American army lieutenant whose death is shrouded in mystery. The authorities have reason to belie…
