Trail to Redemption

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On a midsummer night in 1969 under a full moon Richard L. Stevens helped capture a Viet Cong guerrilla leader named Hoang Thi Nu the Vietnamese Annie Oakley. What he saw her do that night leaping into a river and running through gunfire and what she endured afterwards in captivity changed Stevens's mind about what humans are capable of and about war. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Stevens was the sole American advisor to a South Vietnamese unit of 105 ex-Viet Cong whose mission was to uncover enemy activity along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and this fast-paced real-life adventure story captures the frenzied and fearful flavor of a war in which it was often difficult to know who the enemy was. Trail to Redemption is a story of betrayal capture interrogation imprisonment and escape and the intertwining paths of a Vietnamese woman warrior and a former U.S. Marine. Above all it is a story of personal courage love and respect.</span></p>