Colin Falconer
ASIN: B00BH5H9UG
Publisher: Cool Gus Publishing
Pages: 454
'I just figured what with guns going off and things blowing up, there'd be plenty of deep truths and penetrating insights.'P.J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell Saigon 1969. From the moment Hugh Webb arrives at the Hashish Hilton, as a green freelance reporter, he knows he has found his true vocation. In Sean Ryan, combat photographer, legend and lover, he finds his lifelong mentor, friend - and nemesis.It's Ryan that gets him through his first months in a war zone, Through the jungles and paddy fields and long black nights huddled in bunkers in the Highlands he teaches him how to stay alive.But then Sean Ryan does something that Webb can never forgive - he seduces a Vietnamese novice, gets her pregnant - and then leaves behind when Saigon falls. He didn't care that Ryan never meant for it to happen - the fact was, it did. 'War is the ambulance chaser's wet dream ... the ...