PLAY THE RED QUEEN - Juris Jurjevics

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Play the Red Queen follows story of two American GI cops caught in the corrupt cauldron of a Vietnamese civil war stoked red hot by revolution . . . 

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 a tour-de-force mystery-cum-social history, breathtakingly atmospheric, and heartbreakingly alive with the laws and lawlessness of war.

“The late Jurjevics, who was cofounder and publisher of Soho Press, was also a Vietnam vet and a talented novelist.  Play the Red Queen effectively recreates the tangled politics at work as the US slouched its way into war, and ordinary soldiers were learning that cynicism was necessary to survival.” -- Booklist