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| Category: Fiction:Historical |
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| About the Book | |
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Over 30,000 books have been published on the Vietnam War but this is the only book written about the black-market and how it worked. A young naïve Texan takes a job with a foreign assignment in Saigon in order to beat the draft and through attrition, quickly rises to the position as one of the project engineers in a company with over 55,000 employees. Due to his influential position, he gets involved with leasing hundreds of villas to expatriates through the lovely Danielle--referred to as the Dragon Lady of Saigon--and is slowly entrapped into moving pacification cash to village chiefs, stolen PX goods, converting Vietnamese military trust funds, and operating a U.S. funded casino for entrapment of black-market money. With over $147 million in today’s money in a Hong Kong account, the Chinese underworld cleverly takes control of his stash. The harrowing flight and fight for his money sets the path for the rest of his life.
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| About the Author | |
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Mr. Reagan majored in math and physics at Baylor and graduated from the University of Texas in 1966 in Architectural Engineering, then spent four years as a civilian engineer in Vietnam. Retired from real estate development and finance, he lives in Dallas with his wife, four dogs, and a typewriter. |