Paperback Fourth Printing, Bantam, December 1983
 


Cover art by John Thompson




    Vietnam.  1968.  A nightmarish landscape blackened by napalm and littered with once-human debris.  Where victories are measured in mountains of corpses and ordinary men are transformed into obsessive executioners.  This is the brutally honest story of Cpl. Joker and his battle-hardened company, survivors of months of unimaginable horror--the crazy-tough and the phony-brave, religiously counting the days until their release from the green prison of combat.  But they all know one unspoken truth--that even though they're on their way out, their last few hours in Nam could become their last hours on earth.


 

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