Search and Destroy
 

Search and Destroy

by Dean Hughes

Rick Ward wants to go to war.

He doesn't know why. Maybe he's running from his dad, who has an uncontrollable temper. Maybe he's running from a lost love, his high-school sweetheart, who is a stranger to him now. Or maybe he's just running -- to find himself.

Desperate to experience real life, Rick enlists in the army with the Charlie Rangers, a special unit in Vietnam. They... (read more)

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RICK WARD WANTS TO GO TO WAR. And he has no clue why. Maybe he's running from everyone from his hometown who thinks he's soft. Maybe he's running from his dad's temper. But he goes to Vietnam to "learn about life,and have some discipline." But when he enters the Vietnam Jungle, where he discovers war is nothing like anyone else thinks. Where ,like his "hero writer", Conrad he discovers the heart of darkness in war.

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