ASIN: B00H3JI4VS
Publisher: VISTA PUBLISHING
Pages: 365
The Lonely American bids fair to be the great story of Vietnam, full of unforgettable characters and showing the war as history and literature have never quite managed to portray it. More than anything, The Lonely American is an inspirational tale that touches the reader and gives the gift of greater life, as only literature can do.Saigon, 1962; the United States is trying to help the South Vietnamese government defeat a communist insurgency. An American Air Force officer, David Emerson, meets a lovely young woman, Lucie Hong. David has a girlfriend back home, but Lucie arouses feelings in him that he can’t control; and Lucie is swept off her feet. David disappears into the war and becomes a hero of the Air Force, flying 47 missions without a scratch to himself. But he never forgets Lucie. Some years after they've separated, he finds her, and she tells him about Emma, the daughter he ...
