A Requiem for Crows: A Novel of Vietnam

By: Dennis Foley

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Synopsis: 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 &“a bit of James Dean in his walk, Elvis in his smile and Jerry Lee Lewis in his attitude,&” 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.