Dog Soldiers: A Novel
Apr 1997 · HarperCollins
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously high.
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3.4
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Raymond Gianfrancesco
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March 24, 2015
The story is more plot driven then philosophic delving. It is a captivating read but fails too live up to the promise of its brilliant epigraph from Heart of Darkness. The prose is fairly curt and dry without much flourish, which for some is a positive. The book does carry Conrad's moral burden. Stone shows the meaninglessness of our small and brave gestures in a world corrupted by greed and confused by its own delusions. Its characters struggle with addiction and fantasy in search of meaning and purpose.
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About the author
ROBERT STONE (1937–2015) was the acclaimed author of eight novels and two story collections, including Dog Soldiers, winner of the National Book Award, and Bear and His Daughter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His memoir, Prime Green, was published in 2007.
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