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Dog Soldiers
Dog Soldiers
Author: Robert Stone
A landscape of violence. A world of drugs. A man and a woman's shattering odyssey. "Dog Soldiers" is a dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemingway's adventure stories.. a tale of Southeast Asia and California...a narrative meditation on the counter-culture...a story of the smuggling and theft of three kilos of pure heroin...that goes hell-for-...  more »
ISBN: 312886
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 339
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Publisher: Ballentine
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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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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