Phu Bai

By the summer of 1967, American military involvement in South Vietnam is approaching its peak. As the fighting grows more intense, John Murphy and Charles Van Dyck, investigators with the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, are assigned to the killing of an American soldier at Phu Bai. They work to assemble a case against the person they consider the most likely culprit, with the war unfolding all around them.

The inquiry then takes an odd turn, and what began as a murder investigation becomes a strange chase through an active war zone.

The author served in Vietnam and was stationed at Phu Bai. He later spent more than thirty years as a newspaper reporter in Maine, and he lives in Brunswick with his wife, Deborah, and their two sons. He has also written Kagnew Station, a sequel set in Ethiopia.