• Freedom

  • America, Book 2
  • By: Mike Bond
  • Narrated by: David de Vries
  • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Freedom

By: Mike Bond
Narrated by: David de Vries
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From the war-shattered jungles of Vietnam to America’s burning cities, near-death in Tibet, peace marches, the battle of Hué and the battle of the Pentagon, wild drugs, rock concerts, free love, CIA coups in Indonesia and Greece, the Six Days’ War, and Bobby Kennedy’s last campaign, Freedom puts you in the Sixties as if it were now.

Mick leaves for the Himalayas while Troy heads to Vietnam with the Marines. Daisy starts her PhD in brain research, and Tara battles heroin as her rock band reaches stardom.

Troy is soon caught up in mind-numbing combat in Vietnam, while Mick returns to the States to lead the antiwar effort. Tara’s band signs a Motown contract amid the Detroit riots. At Stanford, Daisy expands her study of the human brain under LSD and other mind-altering drugs. Troy falls in love with a Vietnamese teacher and is slowly losing faith in the war.

Freedom ends the night before the Tet uprising in Vietnam that will change the war, and trap Troy and his beloved in the fires of Hell.

©2021 Mike Bond (P)2021 Mike Bond

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“An extraordinary and deftly crafted novel that combines interesting characters within an historically detailed background...a fascinating read from cover to cover.” (Midwest Book Review)

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Over the top unrealistic

This series started out well with the first 1/2 of America. Then the sex, drugs, and music took over and distracted from the story line. Eventually, it simply became too far fetched to imagine that 4 kids growing up together in rural America post WWII went on to take part, one or the other of them, in every major world-wide socio-political event that touched the globe over the next 10-15 years. I’m surprised one of them wasn’t right there on the grassy knoll when Kennedy was shot. There is only so far one’s imagination can lead into a story. This one takes it a bit too deep. I could follow Vietnam & draft dodging, but take me to Greece, Nepal, Timbuktu, down to the Mississippi riots and then up to MoTown and all gets a bit too trippy for historical fiction.

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