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Dog Soldiers

by Robert Stone

A drug deal spanning Saigon and 1970s America

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A drug deal spanning Saigon and 1970s America

Set during the Vietnam War’s waning days and in the United States of the 1970s, Dog Soldiers links a journalist’s attempt to profit from a major drug deal with trouble waiting back home. Its premise brings together wartime Saigon, the American underground, drug commerce, and encounters with corrupt law enforcement and professional violence. The description frames survival as a high-stakes concern against a backdrop of shifting social and political realities. The novel’s cross-country scope connects the conflict abroad with an underworld taking shape in America, giving the story both a Vietnam-era setting and a focus on the consequences of entering the drug trade.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction set around the Vietnam War and 1970s America
  • Readers drawn to stories involving drug deals, underground networks, and criminal danger

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Drug tradeSurvivalThe American undergroundVietnam War era

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Book overview

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

"A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemmingway's adventure stories...Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape." -New York Times Book Review

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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