Play the Red Queen
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"Soho crime."
"Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Viet Nam "advising" the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer. Set in the besieged capital of a new nation on the eve of the coup that would bring down the Diem regime and launch the Americans into the Viet Nam War, Play the Red Queen is Juris Jurjevics's capstone contribution to a lifelong literary legacy: a tour-de-force mystery-cum-social history, breathtakingly atmospheric and heartbreakingly alive with the laws and lawlessness of war"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 350 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781641291378
1641291370
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Army -- Officers -- Fiction.
Female assassins -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction.
Americans -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Fiction.
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) -- Fiction.
Vietnam (Republic) -- History -- Coup d'état, 1963 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.