The Forest of Assassins edition by David Forsmark Timothy Imholt Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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“The Forest of Assassins is a unique combination of startling fact and gripping fiction—which gives readers a new understanding of the war in Vietnam. It is must-read on every page.”
----THOMAS FLEMING Author of A Disease in the Public Mind A New Understanding of the Civil War
“The Forest of Assassins is a great read, a novel as good as the best journalism, with vivid and accurate details driving a tale of danger and deception and betrayal during the Vietnam War. This book doesn't just feel researched, it feels lived.
Whether tightening the suspense – our protagonist, Navy Lieutenant Hank Dillon eyeball to eyeball with a VC soldier and watching for the skin to whiten on the man’s finger curled around the trigger of his AK-47 – or describing the oppressive heat of an innocent afternoon on the Mekong Delta, David Forsmark and Timothy Imholt make you believe every word of it. I couldn't recommend it more highly.
-ROBERT FERRIGNO, NY Times best-selling novelist, Prayers for the Assassin
As real as fiction gets. A non-stop ride into combat told with perfection.
-BOB HAMER, veteran FBI undercover agent and the author of The Last Undercover
The Forest of Assassins is a historic thriller set in the earliest days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War. It involved the earliest of Navy SEAL teams. It is set in a time when the NAVY still did not admit these men existed, much less had they determined if those units would survive until the next conflict, or if the experiment would be abandoned.
The Forest of Assassins tells the story of Navy SEAL Lieutenant Hank Dillon, a squad commander, deep in the jungles of South Vietnam when America’s involvement in the war was still in the “advisor” stage. Dillon’s mission is to wreak havoc among the Viet Cong guerillas who are terrorizing the countryside.
Their mission—and even their presence in the region—is top secret. But Hank has a problem even bigger than a deadly and determined enemy; he has a traitor in the ranks.
Meanwhile, a suspicious NCIS cop is nosing around Hank’s mysterious operation, certain that it is a front for drug running and other illegal activities.
Things are tense for the young Lieutenant who just wants to go home to his wife…intact.
The Forest of Assassins edition by David Forsmark Timothy Imholt Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Despite the flaws of this book, this is a gripping tale with a lot of details of an elite unit, Navy SEALS, fighting in Vietnam early in America's involvement with that war. The author has a lot of subject matter knowledge and the details really give a sense of the complexity of what was going on. The different ethnic groups such as the Montagnard and Nungs show a country with the same ethnic tensions as others with the added problem of VC invasion. This makes it well worth reading. Other strengths--there actually is a lot of action in this book and a number of adventures so it's never dull. A secondary character gets a story arc that wouldn't work well on its own but supplements this book very well. The flaws are 1) this reads a bit roughly but is balanced by the author knowing when to insert humor to lighten some very grim combat scenes and 2) plot devices that seemed conventional like they have to be there to show how good our hero is despite the covert operations and death he has to deal out to the enemy. Needless to say, this book is drenched in testosterone where the male characters get the story development and the women seem to be 'placeholders' such as the hero's 'red hot' wife who is portrayed as the model perfect soldier's wife while another soldier's wife doesn't deal with the separation well. Even the women in Vietnam are either models of virtue or prostitutes. Perhaps it was just how the male characters characterized them. My rating is 4 stars based on how interesting the story is because it does present a boots on the ground view of Vietnam that's well researched or actually experienced but I couldn't give it 5 stars because the authenticity of the hero didn't ring quite true. The tale was just too tidy, tying up loose ends by the conclusion.Product details
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The Forest of Assassins edition by David Forsmark Timothy Imholt Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
This book is a real "sleeper". I thought I'd read almost all of the available / books in this Vietnam Spec-Ops genre, but the price was very low and the few reviews were good. I decided to take a chance on it and "WOW"!
It is full of non-stop action while developing a multiple, intertwining, plot. If you want a good high adventure story with some spelling errors that are not too excessive, try this one, you'll enjoy it!
Great read! The SEALs were new, it was an experiment that many old timers wanted to fail. This is a story about the first of the first and how they dealt with indecisive leadership in Washington, a corrupt government and questionable military in Vietnam, and the loyal and not so loyal indigenous personnel.
I was in Tonkin Gulf a month after the Maddox and Turner Joy incidents and have seen a Nasty class PT boat in action. We even had the a Nasty tie up to our destroyer and we let them shower, eat, and enjoy some fresh ice cream.
I will read more by these authors.
The names and locations are almost perfect. Did you frequent Rosie O'Gradys. Did you know Ludlum. Are you not worried about the Secrets Act. How did you acquire such information?
A great piece of "fiction", crafted by a writer with a very real sense of what things were like in-country in the 60's. Also adds a missing piece to the Maddox and Turner Joy puzzle, although a Radarman friend of mine aboard the Maddox tells a slightly different story. The pieces still pretty much fit. Different versions of the same incident rarely fit perfectly.
The details around Vung Tau and Cat Lo are spot-on also. I could read this and still smell the place.
One of the best pieces of "fiction" of the era, and I've read most of them. Highly recommended.
Better start reading "Forest of Assassins" early in the day since you won't be putting it down. David Forsmark delivers an exciting, insightful narrative characterized by compelling conviction, abundant detail and rare precision. It's an outstanding example of "non-fiction fiction", recommended for style as well as substance.
I really enjoyed this book, it had good characters, good action, and a good storyline. It talked about the SEALS the men they worked with and how covert they were. How they functioned on their missions and prepared for them as well. Also some of the things they used mostly boats and choppers. The only real downfall was that there are some grammatical errors in the book, small ones not hard to figure out but there. Other than that a very good read.
I enjoyed reading this book very much. I thought it was well written and presented the time leading up to the Vietnam War very well. The story told a very believable story about the life of a Navy Seal leader and his team along with Yards and Vietnamese working covertly gathering information and carrying out missions against the North Vietnamese. As a retired Marine Corps officer who served in Vietnam among other places I very much enjoy reading books about both factual people and events and also novels about war when they are well written. I am very familiar with most of the places described in the book around Da Nang. This book is a worthwhile novel to read and it is a real bargain at .99 cents.
Despite the flaws of this book, this is a gripping tale with a lot of details of an elite unit, Navy SEALS, fighting in Vietnam early in America's involvement with that war. The author has a lot of subject matter knowledge and the details really give a sense of the complexity of what was going on. The different ethnic groups such as the Montagnard and Nungs show a country with the same ethnic tensions as others with the added problem of VC invasion. This makes it well worth reading. Other strengths--there actually is a lot of action in this book and a number of adventures so it's never dull. A secondary character gets a story arc that wouldn't work well on its own but supplements this book very well. The flaws are 1) this reads a bit roughly but is balanced by the author knowing when to insert humor to lighten some very grim combat scenes and 2) plot devices that seemed conventional like they have to be there to show how good our hero is despite the covert operations and death he has to deal out to the enemy. Needless to say, this book is drenched in testosterone where the male characters get the story development and the women seem to be 'placeholders' such as the hero's 'red hot' wife who is portrayed as the model perfect soldier's wife while another soldier's wife doesn't deal with the separation well. Even the women in Vietnam are either models of virtue or prostitutes. Perhaps it was just how the male characters characterized them. My rating is 4 stars based on how interesting the story is because it does present a boots on the ground view of Vietnam that's well researched or actually experienced but I couldn't give it 5 stars because the authenticity of the hero didn't ring quite true. The tale was just too tidy, tying up loose ends by the conclusion.
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