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Randy Lee Eickhoff is one of only three veterans from a specially trained unit of twenty-seven to return from the Vietnam War. He spent the war with the Montagnards in the Vietnamese highlands, parachuting in with his team on special missions. He is the author of many novels including He Stands Alone, The Fourth Horseman, Bowie, and The Gombeen Man. His official website is http://www.randyeickhoff.com.
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At the height of the Vietnam War, twenty-seven members of a U.S. special elite team were dropped into North Vietnam to fight alongside the Rands and Montagnards against the communist regime. Their job was to ambush troops along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, one of the most dangerous of the war. Of the twenty-seven men who went in, only three made it back. One of them is Henry Morgan a modern-day Odysseus struggling to find a way of returning from the Vietnam War. Now living in a monastery, he has turned his back on the world that turned its back on him. But times change and there is a need for a man like Morgan again. A man who has made his voyage. An Odysseus who can bring order to a chaotic world.
Randy Lee Eickhoff's Summer Reading List
Constantine's Sword
by James Carroll
Touted as being the central tragedy of Western civilizations and the "battle" (if one does indeed exist) between Catholicism and Judaism.
La Vita Nuova
by Dante
This really isn't a far choice as I have been meaning to do a new translation of this work for some time and have decided that this summer is when I shall begin.
Buile Suibhne
by Cliodna Cussen
Likewise, this is a work that I have been thinking about translating for quite some time and will begin making notes on it.
The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
Recommended to me by a novelist friend, Win Blevins.
Les Travaillerus de la Mer
by Victor Hugo
The story of the salvaging of a wrecked ship for the love of a woman.
In the Forest
by Edna O'Brien
A murder story.
Les Fleurs du Mal
by Charles Baudelaire
Although I have others that I plan on reading as well, these works are on the must do list.
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