Bøger af John McDonald

In Dinky Dau, the third novel in this Vietnam trilogy, Mac's exploits continure to trigger our tears and laughter.Sergeant Youngblood's rogue Ranger team goes on a rampage. They ambush, rape, kill, steal, smuggle goods, and hole up at an old Frenchman's villa near the Cambodian border. On their way home form Reporter Tex Payne's party, nurses Susan and Dawn, Captain Garibaldi, and CIA agent Hart are in a car crash with an Army truck stolen by Blood's team. The mavericks kill the driver, kidnap the captain and nurses, then take them back to their hideout where they brutalize and repeatedly rape the nurses.With their Ranger teams and tracker-dog Airborne, sustaining characters Mac and Sergeant "Flash" Gordon are sent to the field to track Blood and his men.Later, using his incredible abilities to improvise, economize the truth, and manipulate, Mac arranges for former VC Billy and Airborne to take a most unusual trip.McDonald once again takes us into the lives of the grunt in Nam, giving us a grin one minute and a look at evil the next.

John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in general. Following up the wildly popular A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, the "Dean of Maine Storytelling" offers a new collection of stories that will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh. Here''s a new round of classic stories brimming with half truths, stretched truths, and wry observations about life in Maine.

Whether your primary interest is to improve your card game or put together a political coalition, here you will be enjoyably instructed in an approach to strategy that has caught the imagination of a generation of readers.