This book had been slowly gestating in the back of my mind for several

years before I finally started writing it in 2002.  I had always had trouble

deciding how it should begin.  Then on one of my many trips to Vietnam,

I was staying at the historic Continental Hotel in Saigon.  In fact, I was

staying in the same room that Graham Greene occupied when he wrote

his classic book The Quiet American.  Some quite unusual things

happened to me that day, and when I returned to the hotel in the evening

it had come to me.  I took some hotel stationery and started writing.  The

first nine pages of the book were written that night in the grand old

Continental.

The book is the story of an American pilot returning to Vietnam for the

first time in thirty years. An advertising flier for the book says, “In this

bittersweet love story, a former American bomber pilot tries to understand

his long war in Vietnam and the lengthy struggle for Vietnamese

independence through the eyes of a North Vietnamese woman.  Set

against the backdrop of generations of conflict in Indochina, the book is a

powerful novel about forbidden love, discovery, adventure, death and

forgiveness.”

The book is a historical novel.  Historical in the sense that much related in

the story actually happened.  I hope that you will enjoy the accompanying

review and preview.  If you are interested in purchasing this book, you can

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