The Short Version: Captured by an enemy force, an unnamed solider – a communist double agent working first in South Vietnam and then living, after the fall, in America – recounts what is supposed to be his confession. But what he actually confesses to is far more complicated than even he realizes. The Review: There comes a moment, about halfway into this novel – a moment that’s more like an extended interlude – where our narrator ends up working on a […]

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