Play the Red Queen

Vietnam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Vietnam 'advising' the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer.

For readers who enjoy history as well as a thrilling story it is always great to find a book that gives you both, especially to this extent Crime Review
The year is 1963 and the city is Saigon, still a humid backwater but about to become the red-hot center of a geopolitical firestorm...Jurjevics brings all of it to colorful, fragrant, often ugly life -- Jennifer Reese New York Times
The twist is executed with a card sharp's panache -- James Owen Times
steamy and atmospheric... a great gift of a novel -- Dan Fesperman, author of Safe Houses
A satisfyingly rich and complex crime novel -- Paul Burke Crime Time

Juris Jurjevics (1943-2018) was born in Latvia and grew up in Displaced Persons camps in Germany before emigrating to the United States.

Vietnam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Vietnam 'advising' the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer.

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