Kadusian Chronicles — Jack Ford

Mark Kadusian receives orders for deployment to a medical evac base south of the DMZ in Qui Nhon, South Vietnam. Reluctantly, Mark departs a marriage he and his wife have unofficially declared their own DSZ--DeSensualized Zone of hit-and-miss incursions. Mark, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn, New York, called himself a nerd and spent hours falling in love with Hollywood's screen goddesses while fancying himself as the screen hero, Audie Murphy. Real love eluded the young Air Force medical officer who believed he'd never see in a woman's eyes the "look of love" the beautiful Ingrid Bergman had shown Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 film classic, Casablanca. Mark's tour of duty in Vietnam War will have you laughing and crying as Jack Ford's impeccable style and distillation of human tragedy--spiced with unexpected humor--presents the story of Mark Kadusian during the era that was Vietnam, and the generation of the "Baby Boomers." Ford's Kadusian Chronicles--the Qui Nhon Story is one of those rare and exceptionally well-written stories that compels its readers through a first-person narrative of a character who bears all--his emotional conflicts and psychological flaws, and the confusion that possesses a young man facing unknown dangers. Griffin Publishing Group is the imprint division of FirstWorks Publishing Company, Inc., which celebrates its 10th Year in the publishing industry birthing new and talented Authors who ..".write because they have something to say..." as F. Scott Fitzgerald said.