Reviews

"You have real talent. Keep writing."

— Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner, Fiction.

"The action remains strong while clarity has been improved. In many places your touch shows itself to be finer than before. Your determination and energy are remarkable."

— Tom Jenks, editor of the last posthumous novel of Ernest Hemingway.

"This is a particularly impressive first novel, written with a style that is often lyrical and with a narrative that is vivid, powerfully but compactly expressed, closely observed, effectively plotted and quite suspenseful."

— Paul D. McCarthy, former Senior Editor of Pocket Books.

"This book is an extraordinary book. It was an eye-opener for me, engrossing and I thought innovative. It tells a unique story and contains a lot of government skullduggery and has quite interesting characters."

— David Swift, screenwriter.

"Great Reading. Historically correct. Militarily Correct. Politically exact. Good Homework on your times and places. This book set me up with more food for thought in finding more pieces of the puzzle. Unlike my Cao Dai brothers I understood the reality of a Cao Dai Girl falling in Love with a warrior (from personal experience). The beginning was out of my scope but once the book got into Vietnam I enjoyed the style and the way it moved along in timing and in keeping up with what was going on with the characters. In Good Taste. I converted to Cao Daism in 1967 and Vietnamese is my 5th Language. I had relatives that were Viet Minh that did not support the Assassination of Diem and have relatives buried in the Holy See Cemetery, and also had relatives that ranked up to Colonel in the Cao Dai Army."

— SFC Mark A. Neider