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Mar 25, 2017brangwinn rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I know from the first sentence that this will not be like other books I’ve read. The narrator lets the reader know that he is a spook, a spy for both sides in the Vietnam conflict. Reading his story as he leaves Vietnam in the fall of Saigon to go to the US with the South Vietnamese general for whom he is an aide to his return to Vietnam as a Communist, he made it clear his sentiments were with the Communists. Gut wrenching in the honesty of his actions, he struggles with the murders he committed in America under the guise of helping the South Vietnamese cause, knowing that they were innocent. This was not an easy Pulitzer Prize winner to read, because of its starkness in dealing with actions and politics.