The Man Who Walked Out of Isabelle - Softcover

Bourg, J C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991007603 ISBN 13: 9780991007608

Publisher: Three Greyhounds, 2013

Synopsis

In 1954 on the remote jungle battlefield of Dien Bien Phu, the communist Vietminh defeated French Colonialism. The pursuing peace was only a pause between conflicts on the Indochinese Peninsula, sustainable peace a myth. Beneath the surface of perpetual wars, Corsican syndicates, Vietnamese gangsters, and the CIA postured for control of the Laotian opium trade. American puppets under an anti-communist banner, exploited the populous. Communist extracted a heavy penance from Western collaborators. Winning hearts and minds competed with death's harvest. Crawling out of the French garrison Isabelle, Max Kohl a German in the French Foreign Legion plunges into this lethal world. As a boy soldier of the Third Reich, his Nazi mentors taught him the military skills to survive. Haunted by past anti-Semitic sins, he drifts on the tides of continuous Indochina conflicts.

About this title

About the Author

Jim Bourg is a retired real estate executive. As an American high school student in Singapore, he fostered a passion for Southeast Asia. Over the last several decades, he visited all seven continents with extensive trips to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Isabelle is his debut novel. Currently he resides in Phoenix with his wife and two greyhounds.

Reviews

[An] epic look at French defeat in Vietnam and the entwined lives of the locals, soldiers and foreign nationals trying to survive in unstable times...character development is strong, particularly for a novel this heavily rooted in action. A well told story about finding new beginnings in the aftermath of defeat." - Kirkus Reviews.

Edition details

• Publisher: Three Greyhounds
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0991007603
• ISBN 13: 9780991007608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 792