We see that javascript is disabled or not supported by your browser - javascript is needed for important actions on the site. Read more

What's New - Home - Login

Member $avings: $81,546,554.27 | Books Available: 800,485 | Members Online: 255

Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!

How To Swap Books Sign Up Search submenu

PBS Market (New Books)

Gift Buying Guide

Book Browser Advanced Search Books Posted Today Member Book Reviews Award Winning Books NYT Best Sellers Amazon Best Sellers Most Traveled Copies Club Wish List

Discussion Forums Book Lists

Club Lists My Book Lists My Watched Lists Create a List

Blog Donations

School Donation Program In Memory of... Military Donation Program Friends of PBS

Box-O-Books Maps The Eclectic Pen Fun Stuff

20 Questions Sudoku Bookmark Creator

Top 100

Requests Posts Swappers Referrers Reviewers

Pulse of PBS Spread The Word

Invite Friends Bookmarks Facebook Page Facebook App More Ways...

Photo Gallery Recipes Club Tag Cloud Member Testimonials

Help Center submenu

How To Swap Books Browse Help Docs Ask the Librarian PBS Member Icons Live Help

Kiosk

PBS Market (New Books) Go Shopping Buy Credits Buy PBS Money Upgrade Membership Gift Certificates Transfer Credits

Need Help?

Search - Lost Soldiers

Lost Soldiers
Author: James Webb

Once in a great while there comes a novel of such emotional impact and acute insight that it forever changes the way a reader sees a nation or an era. Writing with an unerring sense of suspense and of history experienced firsthand, James Webb takes us on a myth-shattering cultural odyssey deep into the heart of contemporary Vietnam, with a rivet... more »ing thriller that tells a love story ? love for those who perished, for family and friends, and between a soldier and the land where he had always been ready to die.

Brandon Condley survived five years of combat as a U.S. Marine only to lose the woman he loved to an enemy assassin. Now he is back in Vietnam, working to recover the remains of unknown American soldiers. On a routine mission, Condley finds a body that doesn?t match its dog tags ? a body that propels him into a vortex of violence and intrigue where past and present become one.

As the mystery of the dead man unravels, a link is revealed to two well-known killers: ?Salt and Pepper,? a pair of treasonous Americans who led a deadly Viet Cong ambush against Condley?s own men. Galvanized by a fresh trail to these long-lost deserters, Condley has finally found a purpose: Under the auspices of his government job, he is going to hunt down the traitors. On his own, he is going to kill them.

Condley?s hunt cannot be kept secret from his former enemies, or his friends. And in the shadows that linger from Vietnam?s long season of darkness and terror, he has no way of knowing which side is more dangerous.

Surrounding him is an unforgettable cast of characters: Dzung, Condley?s closest friend, a South Vietnamese war hero who might have led his country if his side had won the war, now reduced to driving a cyclo as his family starves in Saigon?s District Four. Colonel Pham, a battle-hardened Viet Cong soldier who lost three children to American bombs. Manh, a cutthroat Interior Ministry official who blackmails Dzung into a mission of murder. The Russian soldier Anatolie Petrushinsky, who left his soul in Vietnam as his empire collapsed around him. And the beautiful Van, Colonel Pham?s daughter, who spurns the scars of war as she pursues her dreams of freedom.

As Condley stalks his elusive prey across old battlefields and throughout Eurasia, returning always to the brooding streets of Saigon, his mission ? and the odds of his surviving it ? grow more precarious with each step he takes toward the truth.

Lost Soldiers captures the Vietnam of past and present ? its beauty and squalor, its politics and people. Propelled by a page-turning mystery, shot through with adventure and intrigue, it irrevocably transforms our view of that haunted land and brings us as complete an understanding as we will ever have of what happened after the war ? and why. No writer today is more qualified to take us into that world than James Webb.

ISBN-13: 9780752858333
ISBN-10: 0752858335
Publication Date: 12/31/2003
Pages: 432
Edition: New Ed
Rating:

Currently 3/5 Stars.

3 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review

Read All 2 Book Reviews of "Lost Soldiers"

Please Log in to Rate these Book Reviews

Maryanne M. (maryannem) reviewed Lost Soldiers on 10/21/2006 + 83 more book reviews

Brendon Condley went to Vietnamand never quite came home. Instead he fought and lost a war, loved and lost a woman, and fell in love with a country he could not save. Now Condley has returned to the teeming, tangled world of postwar Vietnam to search for the remains of MIAs. What he finds - a body that does not match its' dog tags - touches off an explosing of m ystery, intrigue, betrayal and murder.

Share/Like this Review?

Read All Book Reviews of "Lost Soldiers"

Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> War

Back to the Top ↑

Search - Lost Soldiers

Please Log in to Rate these Book Reviews

Loading...