Dog Soldiers
by:
Robert Stone (author)
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of...
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780395860250 (0395860253)
Publish date: April 2nd 1997
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Although I enjoyed the book, I assume that the people who awarded it the National Book Award and the others who put it on Time's Top 100 List, were already adults during the period of time that the book takes place. I'm sure that because of this, the book that apparently "perfectly captured the und...