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Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin's daughter he cannot forget. Over five decades, Joseph's life becomes enmeshed with the political intrigues of two of Saigon's most influential families, the French colonist Devrauxs, and the native Trans - and inevitably with Vietnam's turbulent, war torn fate.

A lifetime spent fighting other people’s wars had earned John Winter a comfortable early retirement. But when the CIA seizes his money, they quickly realise that their former employee is not a man you want to try to push around. When the former combat pilot and SAS man turned gun-for-hire gives Langley a deadline for its return, the agency think it holds all the cards. An F-4 Phantom jet fighter, an audacious plan to fly halfway round the world, and a threat to dramatically alter the balance of power in the Middle East says they don’t.

Saigon, 1970. Meet Cord McGavin, lone wolf investigator assigned to a special operations unit of the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. McGavin’s beat: The mean streets of this sprawling, violent metropolis ravaged by war. From its wealthy bastions of power, paid for by corruption and profiteering, to the alleys and waterfront shadows where human souls are bartered, deception is the name of the game. The threat of death is never more than a heartbeat away.

Believed complicit in her ex-husband’s prison escape, Cleveland police detective Alex Polonia is methodically being forced out of the department. Not waiting, she does them one better and resigns, taking on a new profession as a special agent for Teton, an international security firm. Her first assignment, bodyguard for the family of Nevio Lucchese, a wealthy Italian industrialist relocating to Ho Chi Minh City, old Saigon.

Vietnam: Danielle è una piccola orfana, una delle tante vite stravolte dalla guerra. A pochi giorni dalla fine del conflitto, viene adottata da un funzionario inglese, in Asia per indagare su un traffico d'armi. L'uomo sa che l'unica speranza per offrire a Danielle un futuro sereno è portarla all’estero, e ci riesce grazie a una precipitosa fuga nelle convulse ore prima della caduta di Saigon. Australia: Danielle, ormai grande, è diventata una donna seducente e un'abile consulente aziendale, e il suo passato sembra solo un ricordo sfuocato.

1980, Vietnam, and the war is over. The shooting has stopped, and the so-called ‘liberated’ nation is at peace. They say. Ben Smith recalls his flight home in 1973, watching Tan Son Nhut disappear beneath the clouds. A veteran of an SF Rapid Reaction Force, he’s seen his share of fighting and come close to getting killed. Now it's over. Never again. So he thinks.

Un reporter de guerre est retrouvé mort en Indochine française. Sa jeune remplaçante enquête et se retrouve entrainée dans des histoires d'espion, d'aventuriers et de tueurs à gage. ​Un roman d'espionnage historique de haut vol par un talent du polar français, et porté par la lecture captivante de Marie du Bled. En Indochine française : une reporter de guerre sur les traces d'espions et de tueurs à gage. Septembre 1953, New York. La rédaction de Life magazine est en deuil.

Three orphans of mixed race struggle to survive on the streets of Saigon amidst the calamity of war, the total rejection of their culture, and adversaries that hunt them daily. Will they live to see the sunrise of another day? That is the question that haunts them during their constant struggle.

Stephen McAllister was a grunt, a dog handler in Vietnam, tasked not only with fighting what was by then an unwinnable war but with rehabilitating a scout dog named Big Mike whose trauma ran even deeper than his own. McAllister's voice has an abundance of heart and humor, but the laughter has a catch in its throat. For all the ingenuity and camaraderie, a dark and suspenseful melody plays behind the adventures of McAllister and his unforgettable constellation of young characters, American and Vietnamese.

Little Saigon, Westminster, California: Anh, a diminutive, self-promoting, brash, Vietnamese beauty, supports her family on tips from a gambling lawyer. Upon his disappearance, Anh turns to the lawyer's secretary Jana, a tough, self-sufficient woman in need of money as desperately as Anh. Together they set up a bogus law practice in Little Saigon in which Anh supplies the clients while Jana plays lawyer.