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Mike Sutton's Vietnam Novel Giveaway
Folks -- Starting today and for the next 30 days, we'll be giving away 100 Kindle copies of my Vietnam Novel
No Survivors
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The work is based on experiences during my three tours in Vietnam as an infantry advisor with the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). Small teams of 6 to 8 Americans would live, train and fight with the South Vietnamese for up to a year at a time.
Training included various weapons systems and tactics. We would then accompany the Vietnamese on combat operations.
When in contact with the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) or Viet Cong (VC), guerrillas we provided tactical advice. We called in artillery fire missions, airstrikes, and medivacs to remove wounded, prisoners, and the dead.
The vast majority of the story's incidents actually happened. However, because I write about it in a different location or timeframe, it is classified as fiction.
War indelibly brands the minds of its participants and victims. Nothing exorcises war’s psychological residue. In that very real sense, there are no survivors.
That’s the devastating premise set forth by Mike Sutton who spent three tours of duty as part of the relatively unknown Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.
No Survivors follows three infantry advisors: Hunter Morgan, a 3-tour vet fighting a war his country is fighting against; Army Medic Henry Small Deer, a full-blooded Sioux, who’d rather fight than stitch; Jesse Edwards, a naïve recruit with a hidden dark side and Samantha Crawford, an Army nurse working in primitive operating rooms and rural hospital wards.
A spy has been planted in the advisors’ team house and, as a result, the enemy is waiting at every turn. Only luck, skill, and combat experience allow the advisors to survive the most inhuman ground assaults and bloody ambushes.
Following an unthinkable climax, and in a brilliant piece of writing, the primary characters come to the bitter, painful realization that sometimes the life you give for your country . . . is not your own.
No Survivors
The work is based on experiences during my three tours in Vietnam as an infantry advisor with the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). Small teams of 6 to 8 Americans would live, train and fight with the South Vietnamese for up to a year at a time.
Training included various weapons systems and tactics. We would then accompany the Vietnamese on combat operations.
When in contact with the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) or Viet Cong (VC), guerrillas we provided tactical advice. We called in artillery fire missions, airstrikes, and medivacs to remove wounded, prisoners, and the dead.
The vast majority of the story's incidents actually happened. However, because I write about it in a different location or timeframe, it is classified as fiction.
War indelibly brands the minds of its participants and victims. Nothing exorcises war’s psychological residue. In that very real sense, there are no survivors.
That’s the devastating premise set forth by Mike Sutton who spent three tours of duty as part of the relatively unknown Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.
No Survivors follows three infantry advisors: Hunter Morgan, a 3-tour vet fighting a war his country is fighting against; Army Medic Henry Small Deer, a full-blooded Sioux, who’d rather fight than stitch; Jesse Edwards, a naïve recruit with a hidden dark side and Samantha Crawford, an Army nurse working in primitive operating rooms and rural hospital wards.
A spy has been planted in the advisors’ team house and, as a result, the enemy is waiting at every turn. Only luck, skill, and combat experience allow the advisors to survive the most inhuman ground assaults and bloody ambushes.
Following an unthinkable climax, and in a brilliant piece of writing, the primary characters come to the bitter, painful realization that sometimes the life you give for your country . . . is not your own.
No Survivors
