The Quick and the Dead

By Randy Lee Eickhoff

Vietnam, 1966. Benjamin Wingfoot is the leader of a special Operations group stationed deep upcountry. He's taken on plenty of dangerous missions, but something about his latest assignment doesn't sit well with him. Summoned back to Saigon, Wingo is ordered to kill a local bar girl suspected of spying for the North - and make it look like the routine murder of a prostitute. Right away, he suspects that there is more to this mission than he is being told. War may be hell, but, as Wingo struggles to uncover the truth amidst the corruption of wartime Saigon, he soon learns that even darker trials await him - and that the price of holding onto his soul may be more than any man can endure.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765307766
• ISBN13: 9780765307767
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Blanc, Despain, Catlin...WHO?

I don't know what C.Blanc, R.O. Despain, and Alan C. Catlin think they are doing with their reviews of Eickhoff's work, But their reviews remind me of someone who is a wannabe reviewer and doesn't have the intellectual capacity to be one. Unfortunately, comments like these idiots are unwarranted. THE QUICK AND THE DEAD is a wonderful read and, from others with whom I have shared the work, seamless and flawless. Several other reviews have praised Eickhoff for his accuracy and truthfulness as a storyteller. Blanc, Despain, and Catlin appear to be looking for works to denigrate through their stupidity

I loved this book!!

I guess I like cliches. I thought this book was extremely well written. I have a friend that was a LRRP in Vietnam around 1971 and read him parts of the book. He always complains if things are not accurate or real, in books that are about the Vietnam war, and he also liked this book. I didn't notice the inconsistencies the other reviewer wrote about so it didn't bother me. I just loved the way the author wrote. I felt like I was there. He puts so much emotion behind the story. The feelings that he writes about on killing and fear agree with other books I have read and veterans that I have talked to. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in war or Vietnam.