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It is the summer of 1945, the last and very dangerous days of World
War II. The Office of Strategic Services is in close, cooperative
contact with Ho Chi Minh and the fighting cadre of the Viet Minh,
working against the Japanese. In the closing months of the war, the
OSS parachute a team of special operations soldiers into Tonkin,
northern Viet Nam. Led by Major John Guthrie and his
second-in-command, Captain Edouard Parnell, both experienced
officers from their earlier assignments in occupied France and
Belgium, the team are tasked with working with Ho Chi Minh against
the Japanese in the midst of various groups vying for control of
Indochina. Guthrie and his team have to adapt to the entirely
different context of Vietnamese politics in order to encourage
communist operations against the Japanese. Guthrie in particular,
struggles with both his personal and professional conflicts. The
relationship that Guthrie and the rest of the OSS team develops
with the Viet Minh leadership is of distinct annoyance to French
ambitions to regain control of their colony, Indochina. Based on
the little-known true story of American and Viet Minh collaboration
in 1945, this novel challenges the later-accepted dogma of both
those supporting and those opposing the American role in the Viet
Nam conflict. This novel notes how what is seen at a later time is
often inadequate to understand what actually went on. Its
contemporary relevance is simply a mirror of what is always the
case in international affairs: today's enemies can and may be
tomorrow's friends - and most importantly, the reverse is true
also.
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