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  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. EPIGRAPH
  4. PRAISE
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. MAP
  7. PROLOGUE
  8. CHAPTER ONE
  9. CHAPTER TWO
  10. CHAPTER THREE
  11. CHAPTER FOUR
  12. CHAPTER FIVE
  13. CHAPTER SIX
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN
  15. CHAPTER EIGHT
  16. CHAPTER NINE
  17. CHAPTER TEN
  18. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  19. CHAPTER TWELVE
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  46. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  47. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  48. What’s next onyour reading list?

With a slow, uplifting motion, Dzung tossed the bird into the air. It fluttered a bit, finding its wings, and then flew away toward the school. For a long moment Dzung watched it, his hands remaining high in the air as if he were reaching for the sky.

“He went over the school, Cong Ly! A good sign.”

“A very good sign,” agreed Condley, watching the pigeon disappear.

Satisfied with this good fortune, they climbed into the car. Dzung grinned at him as he started the engine. “So, where we go now?”

Condley leaned back against the seat, enjoying its firmness and the fresh, new smells of the car’s interior. He felt very, very free, and even slightly prosperous. Dzung pulled carefully into the traffic and then looked quickly over to him, his eyes asking for directions. Where did he want to go? Condley did not know and at that moment he did not even care.

“Di dau, ma chang duoc,” he finally said, drawing a quick laugh from his friend.

Anywhere we want.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JAMES WEBB has worked and traveled in Vietnam extensively since 1991. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Georgetown Law Center, he was one of the most highly decorated Marines of the Vietnam War, receiving the Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts for his combat service. An attorney and Emmy Award–winning journalist, he has served as Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and full committee counsel to the U.S. Congress. He lives in Virginia, where he has authored five critically acclaimed, bestselling novels, including Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War.

COPYRIGHT PAGE

Published by
Dell Publishing

a division of

Random House, Inc.

1540 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Grateful acknowledgment is make to the following for permission to quote from previously published material:

“What Was Lost” by W. B. Yeats. Reprinted in the United States with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright © 1940 by Georgie Yeats, copyright renewed © 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michael Butler Yeats, and Anne Yeats. Reprinted in Canada with the permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.

The lines from “Mandalay” by Rudyard Kipling are reprinted with permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.

Copyright © 2001 by James Webb

Map illustration by David Cain