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Play the Red Queen

By: Juris Jurjevics
Narrated by: Michael Braun
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The posthumous masterwork by critically acclaimed author, storied publisher, and Viet Nam veteran Juris Jurjevics - the story of two American GI cops caught in the corrupt cauldron of a Vietnamese civil war stoked red hot by revolution.

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, 16,000 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.

©2020 Juris Jurjevics (P)2020 Recorded Books International Mystery & Crime Vietnam War Police Procedural Historical Mystery Crime War & Military War Military Fiction Genre Fiction Heartfelt
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I don’t know how historically accurate this story is, but it really underlined the corruption on all sides of this conflict. The old adage, follow the money, applies. Well written and disturbing.

Early Vietnam war noir

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