James R Westergreen
James R. Westergreen,
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Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is a wartime thriller ranging from the pleasure districts of Saigon to the back-alleys of Chicago. It's the story of plans gone awry, the seductive power of greed, and the redeeming power of love, all unfolding amid the unpredictable violence of war. MP Captain Tobias Riley's duty becomes a quest for vengeance as characters are double-crossed and bodies litter the page. A Vietnamese Colonel lies dead on the bathroom floor after a night of passion at Cholon's Hotel Fleur. Riley is on special assignment to help find the killer. His investigation uncovers an American deserter partnered with the mysterious Madam D running a heroin ring out of the Fleur. Phoenix Program killer Jack Flash shows up and things come unglued. Air American pilots, Chinese warlords and rogue soldiers scramble to find a C-47 loaded with heroin that goes missing.
Slammin' It
Slammin’ It is a very different look at the Vietnam War from those who fought in it and those who fought against it.
This is the story of my journey from a carefree college student to a soldier, to an anti-war GI, to refusing a direct order and finally ending up as an inmate in the army’s Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth Kansas.
It is a historical odyssey that touches on the turbulent times of the 1960s as seen through my eyes and my own personal experiences; the assassinations of King and Kennedy, the Beatles, the Summer of Love, LSD, hippies, the anti-war movement, the GI anti-war movement, My Lai, Agent Orange, and the invasion of Cambodia.
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A gripping and suspenseful historical thriller combined with romance
By Julie O on May 3, 2016
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An exciting thriller! This book grabbed hold of me on page 1, and I didn’t want to put it down. It starts out in Saigon during the Vietnam War, and follows various protagonists through the seedy underworld of Saigon brothels, black market drug dealers, military deserters, undercover hits by covert military operatives, rogue Air America pilots, the mafia, incompetent high-ranking military officers, and the military police trying to cope with it all and solve a crime. It then follows the lead characters after the war, as they readjust to life in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. It’s a gripping and suspenseful historical thriller combined with romance. It features excellent characters and a very real feel for the time and place of Saigon during the war – I felt like I was actually in Vietnam. This is a good airplane read, as it causes the reader to escape his everyday world. I highly recommend it.
