Pay Back: Cooper Vietnam Era Quartet: 1975

by D.Z. Church

Three Deadly Promises. A cartel’s future. An officer’s deliverance. A child’s safety.The Vietnam War rages in The Cooper Vietnam Era Quartet, a series of thoughtful thrillers following one military family’s experience in the Vietnam era. This wide-ranging epic toggles between Vietnam and the Michigan suburbs, bubbling with fresh intrigue at every turn, as Navy and Marine brothers Laury and Byron Cooper balance their own interests amid the U.S.'s complex feeling about the war, to safeguard their futures, and their family.Pay Back, the third book in the series, takes place over a week and a half in 1975 in the waning days of the Vietnam War. When two acquaintances from opposite worlds call in their markers, Laury Cooper must return to Saigon to make good on his promises. While CDR Byron Cooper has one chance to redeem himself aboard an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.The Cooper brothers aren't the only ones whose pasts have caught up with them. In Michigan, Laury's new wife, Kate, has a history she hasn't divulged. And his daughters, Jolie and Emelie aren't telling all they know about friends and foes. As Saigon falls, Laury Cooper walks a tightrope to payback his debts and ensure his family’s future.Readers eager for mysteries laced with intense action scenes and compelling family dynamics, will feast on The Cooper Vietnam Era Quartet. Ideal for fans of wartime stories and sweeping family sagas, this satisfying, wide-ranging epic delivers a heady mix of intrigue and history that will keep readers on the edges of their seats delivering pulse-pounding, smart tales of suspense.

332 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2020

About the author

D.Z. Church served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam Era as a Division, Security and Public Affairs Officer. She has since been an award-winning Advertising Creative Director, and worked educational assessment, specifically the assessment of writing. Raised in the mid-West, she has lived in the Eastern, Southern and Western United States and Barbados. Along the way, she discovered that people aren't always as they seem, and that revenge is best served in a whopping good tale. The kind people like to read with a little history, some foul weather, an absorbing mystery, and a whole helping of suspense.