Dog Soldiers Audio Book CDs Unabridged

Dog Soldiers
Author: Robert Stone
Reader: Tom Stechschulte

During the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist looks for action – and profit – in a big-time Saigon drug deal. The scheme works perfectly... until he returns to the States, and he finds himself outwitted by crooked cops and professional killers. "Melodramatic, cruel, witty, and grim."—The New York Times » Read More

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$34.95

Publish Date: 04/01/2008
ISBN: 9781602833616

Synopsis:

John Converse is sent on assignment to Vietnam by his father-in-law, who runs a tabloid paper. While there, he decides to smuggle in three kilos of heroin to the U.S. He gets his friend Hicks to do it. Once Hicks gets to the U.S., he contacts Marge, who sells tickets in a porn theater and is addicted to tranquilizers. Hicks is set upon by thugs, and he and Marge escape across Southern California, Converse in pursuit of them, and a posse of lawmen led by a man named Antheil in pursuit of the heroin itself. The three parties meet at a cult in the mountains near the Mexican border. This book won the National Book Award in 1975 and was filmed as WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? in 1978.

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Winner of the 1975 National Book Award in Fiction

Author Bio:

Born in New York City and reared in Brooklyn, Robert Stone attended NYU and Stanford University. He has acknowledged the influences of Hemingway and the Beats on his work. Known for his emphasis on down-and-out characters, one critic said of him, "He is the apostle of strung out."

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