A kid from the slums works his way up to field-grade officer in the U.S. Army and serves for more than 20 years, but not without the aid of angels who manifest themselves in ever increasing frequency to protect him from harm in combat.

Angels in My Foxhole

Biographies & Memoirs

Dixon, Richard A.M.

Leaders & Notable People

Plicata Press

Dillon's War - Revenge of the Weretiger is a paranormal adventure tail, second book of a trilogy about the Vietnam War during 1968-69. Mike Dillon, a soldier, bonds with a wild tiger to fight the war in his own way. In this tale the man and the tiger are raised from death to become the Weretiger, a mythological creature able to shape-shift from tiger to man and back at will. The weretiger is indestructible by ordinary means. together the pair raises havoc in the jungles of Vietnam and Laos.

Dillon's War: Revenge of The Weretiger

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In the last installment of the Dillon's War series, CIA operative Dave Duryee continues to track by satellite the mythical weretiger-a magical beast that shapeshifts into human form-in its lair deep in the jungle of Laos. While the war with Vietnam winds down and US servicemen and women head home, Dave longs to return to the region. His buddy Mike is locked in weretiger form, and Dave may be his only shot at rescue. When Dave receives orders transferring him to Bangkok, he wastes no time joining forces with Claude, the mysterious security manager of the station. Together the two men hatch a plan to parachute into the Laotian jungle. They arrive at the Special Forces camp during the height of a siege by enemy guerrilla fighters and find Dr. Mary Leary, an American physician with the elixir needed to save Mike. But as combat escalates and the Laotian jungle exerts its magical forces on the men, David and Claude must fight to find Mike before it's too late for all of them. Set against a lushly dangerous tropical backdrop, Weretiger's Deliverance will delight Vietnam vets and keep all readers turning the page.

Dillon's War: Weretiger's Deliverance

Merriam Press Historical Fiction No. 17 First Edition 2016 Out of the turbulent last decades of French Indo-China, emerges an antihero, larger than life. He is Claude Lellange, product of a mixed marriage between a French senior officer, Colonel Henri Lellange and a Vietnamese woman, Claude fights his way up from enlisted ranks to officer in the airborne forces of the Foreign Legion. His heroic exploits and his ferocity in many combat actions, leading to the final battle at Dien Bien Phu, cause him to be cited as The Tiger of Dien Bien Phu. Raised as a Eurasian in a world where he suffers rejection among French and Asian alike, He grows quickly to manhood and learns to be self sufficient unto himself. The story covers his adventures throughout Southeast Asia, a two year sojourn in North Africa and the Sahara Desert, and a career as a paratrooper in the Foreign Legion. Though he fights with the fury of a tiger his military career ends with the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the finish of French dominance in Indo-China. Claude returns to North Africa and builds a new career as a paid assassin. History buffs will enjoy this historical adventure tale and imaginary look into the turbulent years of French colonialism during the period 1932-54 and its ties to the American involvement in South Vietnam. For those who love adventure, this is the adventure of a lifetime. For those who enjoy romance, there is that, too. He finds solace in his family and flees to North Africa with his father to escape the Japanese invasion of Vietnam. In French Morocco he is kidnapped by Berbers and taken into the Sahara Desert where he escapes and nearly succumbs to death by thirst and exposure, but is rescued by a passing salt caravan bound for Timbuktu. Claude spends more than two years in the desert where his bravery wins for him an Arabian stallion and the love of a young slave girl. Rejoining his father at the end of World War II, They return to Hanoi together and are reunited  with Claude’s mother. At the age of sixteen Claude joins the French Army and becomes a legionnaire paratrooper, meets and marries a Vietnamese girl, and fathers a daughter. As the situation deteriorates under continued attacks by the communist forces under Ho Chi Minh, Claude’s wife and daughter go to Haiphong to live with his mother. Haiphong is shelled and the entire family, except Claude and his father, is killed. Henri dies at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and Claude is captured at the final French surrender, but escapes to Laos and makes his way to Algiers where he musters out of the legion and becomes an assassin, a killer for hire. He has many adventures in Algiers and Casablanca, is reunited with his first love and his Arabian stallion, before his is forced to flee once again by revolution in Algeria and Morocco. Claude escapes to Bangkok where he goes to work for the American CIA. 3 maps.

The Tiger of Dien Bien Phu

Merriam Press

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Dixon, Richard A.M.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Dixon, Richard A.M.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Dixon, Richard A.M.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Angels in My Foxhole

Dillon's War: Revenge of The Weretiger

Dillon's War: Weretiger's Deliverance

The Tiger of Dien Bien Phu