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Vietnam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Vietnam 'advising' the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer.

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'Steamy and atmospheric... a great gift of a novel' - Dan Fesperman, author of Safe Houses 'Jurjevics brings the heat, the smells and the corruption vividly to life... masterfully pulled together'- Sara Paretsky, author of Dead Land 'Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art' - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 'The twist is executed with a card sharp's panache' - Times 'The year is 1963 and the city is Saigon, still a humid backwater but about to become the red-hot center of a geopolitical firestorm... Jurjevics brings all of it to colorful, fragrant, often ugly life' - New York Times

For readers who enjoy history as well as a thrilling story it is always great to find a book that gives you both, especially to this extent * Crime Review * The year is 1963 and the city is Saigon, still a humid backwater but about to become the red-hot center of a geopolitical firestorm...Jurjevics brings all of it to colorful, fragrant, often ugly life -- Jennifer Reese * New York Times * The twist is executed with a card sharp's panache -- James Owen * Times * steamy and atmospheric... a great gift of a novel -- Dan Fesperman, author of Safe Houses A satisfyingly rich and complex crime novel -- Paul Burke * Crime Time *

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Juris Jurjevics (1943-2018) was born in Latvia and grew up in Displaced Persons camps in Germany before emigrating to the United States.

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