Sergeant Sam Walden, a Green Beret leading a reconnaissance team of Vietnamese and Chinese mercenaries over the border into Laos, must survive the hellish conditions of combat while attempting to obtain information about the enemy...
The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”
“Of all th...