A Rumor of War

A personal memoir of the war in Vietnam, in which the author first served as a Marine and which he later covered as a reporter

Caputo, Philip

Biographies & Memoirs

Henry Holt Co.

Three men are chosen to smuggle arms into a primitive, barren wasteland--the Horn of Africa--in this story that reveals the dark side of human nature

Horn of Africa: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

The respected journalist, Nicholas DelCorso, becomes obsessed with his crusade to expose the terrible realities of war in his photographs

Delcorso's Gallery

When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.

Horn of Africa : a novel

Literary

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Focuses on the author's experiences in some of the world's most punishing war zones, from Beirut to Saigon to Afghanistan, and portrays the horrors of modern war through the eyes of a foreign correspondent

Means of Escape

Professionals & Academics

Harpercollins

After a lone gunman opens fire on a busload of Asian-American children and then kills himself, forensic psychiatrist Leander Heartwood and police officer Gabriel Chin investigate the crime, a probe that takes them into the dark underside of contemporary society. 50,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Equation for Evil: A Novel

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Perennial

On a quiet morning in California, a lone gunman opens fire on a busload of children headed for a field trip, then turns the gun on himself. Forensic psychiatrist Leander Heartwood and special agent Gabriel Chin team up to investigate the case, seeking at first only to solve this single disturbing crime but in time delving into issues of race, morality, and the complex forces at work in all horrifying acts of violence.
Part mystery, part psychological thriller, part piercing social commentary, Equation for Evil is a riveting and incisive meditation on violence and the nature of evil.

Harper Paperbacks

Indian Countryis a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam experience. Christian Starkmann follows his boyhood friend, an Ojibwa Indian called Bonny George, from the wilderness of Michigan?s Upper Peninsula, where they roamed, hunted and fished in their youths, to the wilderness of Vietnam, where they serve as soldiers in the same platoon. After returning home from the war, his friend buried on the battlefield he left behind, Christian begins to make a life for himself. Yet years later, although he is happily married to June, a good-hearted social worker, and has two daughters, Christian is still fighting--with the searing memories of combat, with the paranoid visions that are clouding his marriage and threatening his career, and most of all with the ghost of Bonny George, who haunts his dreams and presses him to come to terms with a secret so powerful it could destroy everything he has built.

Indian Country: A Novel

When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes heâ€™s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken manâ€™s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nationâ€™s fight for stability and peace.

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A Rumor of War

Horn of Africa: A Novel

Delcorso's Gallery

Horn of Africa : a novel

Means of Escape

Equation for Evil: A Novel

Means of Escape

Equation for Evil: A Novel

Indian Country: A Novel

Horn of Africa: A Novel