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- Bill Gates: "A fresh take on the Vietnam War I thought this thrilling story about a double agent lived up to the hype." source ↗
Summary
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel narrated by a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army and later in a refugee community in Los Angeles. Published in 2015, it explores themes of identity, betrayal, and the lingering trauma of the Vietnam War through a darkly comic and politically incisive lens. The novel is the first in a series that continues with The Committed.