Requiem for Crows

A carefree young man, shipped to Vietnam in the early sixties, faces treachery in the midst of battle in this novel by the author of Long Range Patrol. With "e;a bit of James Dean in his walk, Elvis in his smile and Jerry Lee Lewis in his attitude,"e; Scotty Hayes is an unlikely candidate for the army. But the draft board is about to turn his world upside down. Two months after Scotty hitches a ride from Belton, Florida, to Fort Benning in Georgia with exactly thirty-nine dollars in his pocket, the president is assassinated. And Scotty is suddenly facing combat in Vietnam. Now, Sergeant Hayes, accidental soldier, is at war against a new kind of enemy, fighting deadly AK-47 fire, the jungle, and treachery within his ranks. When a superior's cowardice plunges Scotty into a hot zone with his comrades' lives at stake, he must find an answer for the danger that threatens to engulf them all.