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Play the Red Queen

By: Juris Jurjevics
Narrated by: Michael Braun
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The posthumous masterwork by critically acclaimed author, storied publisher and Vietnam veteran Juris Jurjevics - the story of two American GI cops caught in the corrupt cauldron of a Vietnamese civil war stoked red hot by revolution.

Vietnam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, 16,000 American servicemen are stationed in Vietnam 'advising' the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer.

Set in the besieged capital of a new nation on the eve of the coup that would bring down the Diem regime and launch the Americans into the Vietnam War, Play the Red Queen is Juris Jurjevics’ capstone contribution to a lifelong literary legacy: a tour-de-force mystery-cum-social history, breathtakingly atmospheric and heartbreakingly alive with the laws and lawlessness of war.

©2020 Juris Jurjevics (P)2020 W F Howes

Critic reviews

"A whopper.... Relentlessly fascinating." (The New York Sun)

"Wildly entertaining." (The New Orleans Times-Picayune)

"Infectious." (USA Today)

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