Targets

Description for TARGETS: A NOVEL OF VIETNAM by Donald E McQuinn: Major Taylor, USMC, is an officer whose career has included intel and infantry assignments. He has been passed over for promotion, and will end his career pushing paper in Saigon. That is, until Col. Winters recruits him for The Unit; a Vietnamese-American "deniable" unit which focuses on VC terror units, corruption, and drug dealers. Taylor becomes effective in this unit while hunting Binh, a top-level VC coordinator. Winter, Taylor, and their Vietnamese co-parts must contend with corruption from within the Vietnamese government and the American military, with a media that slants the news (and worse!), and with careerist officers within the military that have aligned themselves with anti-war senators. Taylor falls in love with his language instructor, Ly, and they must deal with racial hostility from both Americans and Vietnamese. Taylor must leave Vietnam in the end with a sense of loss.