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product_id: 146783953
title: "A Time Of War"
brand: "pyramid press"
price: "£41.47"
currency: GBP
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reviews_count: 6
category: "Book"
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region: United Kingdom
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# A Time Of War

**Brand:** pyramid press
**Price:** £41.47
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## Description

From Publishers Weekly
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Written by a former Marine lieutenant, this sprawling drama of the Vietnam war has all the elements of a TV miniseries--lush settings, sexy characters, high-level cloak-and-dagger espionage and acts of personal bravery. Bradley Marshall is Lyndon Johnson's personal ambassador to Vietnam, whose attempts to end the war through secret negotiations with the North Vietnamese are opposed by high-level CIA operatives within the U.S. Embassy. Marshall's bodyguard, true-blue Lt. Ron Mead, is forced to terminate his romance with a 17-year-old prostitute when a CIA agent instructs him to establish a homosexual liaison with a decadent French spy. Meanwhile, Mead's company in Khe Sanh struggles to survive the North Vietnamese onslaught and the almost nonsensical orders of its own commanding officers. Peterson adroitly evokes embassy intrigue and his battle scenes are immediate and compelling. Some readers may be taken aback by the powerful, troubled current of sexuality, however: erotic hero-worship alternates with cartoonish views of homosexuality; rape, whoring and pornography are presented as GI staples; sex and violence are always linked. Though the story at times reads like potboiler melodrama, Peterson constructs an elaborate, absorbing and viscerally affecting narrative. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday and Military Book Club alternates. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐ Boringly
            
*by A***R on October 25, 2018*

Boring
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Novel
            
*by P***Y on August 10, 2018*

Excellent read.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Timely  take on the futility of American military intervention
            
*by F***R on February 12, 2007*

While this novel is not on the level of timeless literature, it is a compelling read filled with interesting characters, a serpentine plot, and lots of sex and violence, underpinned by a sharply critical perspective on the Vietnam misadventure. As you read it, you cannot help thinking of "Iraq."  Example: "This is an enemy we cannot defeat and an ally we cannot prop."Adding to the tragic nature of this novel is the fact that its author, a Vietnam veteran, was convicted in 2003 of the murder of his wife and now serves a life sentence for the crime. A riveting documentary on the case "The Staircase" is available on dvd and is highly recommended.
  

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