Cologne No. 10 For Men

I love the way Wilfred recycles the bodies. That's fabulous stuff with a direct line to Heller's Catch-22 and perfectly captures the insanity of the Vietnam War. </P><P>-<B>Richard Peabody</B> co-editor of Gargoyle Magazine </P><P>Counting bodies in Vietnam. In this earthy war/peace novel comedy frames grim pictures of war. Morris weaves combat a love affair and military satire into a story that is by turns terrifying gruesome and mad and one acted by a memorable cast of characters-grunts and hookers Vietcong soldiers and spies heroes and inane officers. It begins on a huge base in the Central Highlands in 1967 where Lieutenant Wilfred Carmenghetti falls in love with Can and smuggles her to a forward firebase. In the field he and his platoon win stunning victories but spies plot his death Vietcong soldiers attack the platoon and Can leaves him. What follows is a surprising and fanciful comedic ending. <I>Cologne No. 10 For Men</I> is a book to make us fear weep laugh and remember. </P>A soldier in Vietnam invents a uniquely absurd solution to the horrors of war. A relatively na��ve Wilfred Carmenghetti comes to the Far East to outmaneuver the draft and save the Western world. A funny and serviceable satire about the gross rationalizations that propel war and peace. -<b>Kirkus Discoveries</b>