Walking Wounded (Vietnam #5) (5)

About this book

National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch concludes his gritty thoughtful look at Americas darkest hour. Morris Rudi Ivan and Beck were best friends. So when one of them was drafted into the Vietnam War the others signed up too. They promised to look out for one another. They pledged to come home together.Now that pledge has been broken. One of the four has been killed in action. And the remaining three are the only men alive who know the awful truth about their friends death.Each is left to deal with their secret in his own way. One of them will accompany his friends body home to Boston. One of them will defy orders in an act of protest. And one of them will decide its up to him to single-handedly win the war.In the end Vietnam may claim more than their lives. As the war grinds on their very souls are at stake. And their shattered friendship will prove either their salvation... or their ruin.