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Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone · 1973 · 360 pages
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.
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T.C. Boyle
“My favorite of this ultrahip, bad-boy writer’s novels. A drug deal goes wrong (do drug deals ever go right?), and one of our recent literature’s hardest hombres, Ray Hicks, picks up his rifle and takes on all comers just to feel the sharp edge of the world rubbing up against him. A beautiful, tense, Vietnam-haunted book.”↗