Michael Herr

Contains primary source material.

"[Book title] is a fascinating and terrifically entertaining evocation of the life and times of the gossip columnist and journalistic demagogue who was also one of the most famous and powerful men in America during the forties and fifties."--Book jacket.

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.