Death in Saigon

In 1967 during the war in Vietnam disillusioned free-lance journalist Adam Berg tries to change his life by going to work for an American military deserter. He enters a world of prostitution drugs and a serial killer of young women on the loose in SaigonBerg befriends a wily Vietnamese detective who is tracking the killer and seeks the journalists help to find him. Falling in love with a prostitute Berg becomes addicted to opium using it to help him escape his new reality. Berg and his detective friend hunt the killer pursuing justice.The result is a dramatic powerful and surprising climax in a novel filled with many aspects of life in Vietnam during the war.