""I love the way Wilfred recycles the bodies. That's fabulous stuff
with a direct line to Heller's Catch-22 and perfectly captures the
insanity of the Vietnam War."
-Richard Peabody, co-editor of Gargoyle Magazine
Counting bodies in Vietnam. In this earthy war/peace novel,
comedy frames grim pictures of war. Morris weaves combat, a love
affair, and military satire into a story that is by turns
terrifying, gruesome, and mad, and one acted by a memorable cast of
characters-grunts and hookers, Vietcong soldiers and spies, heroes
and inane officers. It begins on a huge base in the Central
Highlands in 1967 where Lieutenant Wilfred Carmenghetti falls in
love with Can and smuggles her to a forward firebase. In the field
he and his platoon win stunning victories, but spies plot his
death, Vietcong soldiers attack the platoon, and Can leaves him.
What follows is a surprising and fanciful comedic ending. "Cologne
No. 10 For Men" is a book to make us fear, weep, laugh, and
remember. A soldier in Vietnam invents a uniquely absurd solution
to the horrors of war. A relatively na ve Wilfred Carmenghetti
comes to the Far East to outmaneuver the draft and save the Western
world. A funny and serviceable satire about the gross
rationalizations that propel war and peace. -Kirkus Discoveries
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