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Army cop Erik Rider prefers to fight his war in the saloons and streets of Saigon. When he is sent to disrupt a Vietcong opium operation deep in the jungle, he could not be less interested. But when Rider lands in Cheo Reo, things get complicated. The American outpost is home to battle-hardened soldiers, intelligence operatives, and profiteers of all stripes. Meanwhile, Vietcong battalions are massing in the hills, and sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople are advancing with the goal of reclaiming their mountain homeland.
With a bounty on his head, Rider must hunt for the opium smugglers, avoid enemy patrols, and defend the undermanned U.S. base. As he closes in on the smuggling operation, he discovers that someone inside the base has a stake in it, and is willing to kill to protect that stake.- Sales Rank: #1999506 in Books
- Published on: 2011-09-20
- Released on: 2011-09-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.20" h x 6.10" w x 9.10" l, 1.15 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Amazon.com Review
A novel of soldiers and spies in the Highlands of Vietnam
Q: What makes Red Flags different from other fictional works about the Vietnam War?
A: Most of them are combat novels. Fictionalized memoirs about fighting the enemy on the ground in the jungles, from helicopters, bombers, river boats: us versus them. Red Flags is about corruption and betrayal and espionage in a seemingly simple place. And Americans caught in the middle of this symbiotic marriage of the warring Vietnamese sides, and about the intrigues and duplicity that fueled the war, literally. "You had to sort through them," says the American main character, "to figure out which side you were on." Which is the difficult task the hero faces in order to pull off his very tricky mission. It is also about the native Montagnard tribes that inhabited the Central Highlands, people despised by the Vietnamese, whose language they didn’t even speak, but were caught in the vise of this messy civil war-revolution.
Q: What kind of research did you do for the book?
A: I got carried away. I did everything. I sought out declassified documents, rare maps, Army incident reports, archives of missionary organizations. I canvassed veterans on the internet, found and corresponded with the missionary I’d known there, located two close friends from the service and met up with them in California for the first time in 40 years, and we phoned two more (who have since met up with the first two). And of course, I read everything I could get my hands on: over a thousand books at this point. The shelves groan.
Q: How much of the book is based on real people and events from your own experience?
A: Too much. Inspired by real events, I think is the expression. Unfortunately.
Review
"Jurjevics' 'Nam seethes with conflicted loyalties...a caldera of conflict that Jurjevics depicts with an anthropologist's eye for customs and interrelationships... This tight-wound thriller drips with historical detail in all its cruelty...hard-boiled realism... [a] splendid contribution to the body of fiction written about Vietnam."
--Kirkus
-Publishers Weekly"Red Flags is not only an espionage thriller but a fascinating and extraordinarily authentic look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of a wry intelligence officer. You will hear the thumps of the Chinook rotors and feel the Kalashnikovs’ bullets buzzing past."
- Keith Thomson, New York Times Bestselling author of Once a Spy"In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This is a book that is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart."
- Robert Olen Butler, author of Hell"To step onto the pages of this intriguing spy tale and haunting war story is to feel the swelter of the rain forest, the menace of enemy patrols, and the maddening duplicity of supposed allies. Red Flags is a richly rewarding hitch in harrowing territory. Enlist immediately."
- Dan Fesperman, author of Layover in Dubai"Juris Jurjevics has achieved the seemingly irreconcilable by bringing the Vietnam War back, and simultaneously making it new. He has found new dangers in Vietnam--like it needed them. It’s a great thriller, and a great heartbreak, like its subject matter."
-Jim Morris, author of War Story"Red Flags is a gripping tale of adventure and mystery set in the backdrop of the complexity and corruption of the Vietnam War. Jurjevics’s extensive research and first-hand experience in Vietnam result in a story that is both amazing and, at the same time, believable. A great read!"
-Doug Bey M.D. 1st Inf.Div Vietnam 1969-1970, author of Wizard 6
From the Inside Flap
Army cop Erik Rider prefers to fight his war in the saloons and streets of Saigon, so he is less than thrilled at being sent to a tiny American outpost in the remote wilderness of the Central Highlands to take down a Viet Cong opium operation hidden in the jungle. When Rider lands in Cheo Reo, things get complicated. Viet Cong battalions are gathering in the surrounding hills like storm clouds, while the corrupt South Vietnamese commander and his troops sit idle. And sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople want their mountain homeland back.
Soon Rider is entangled with the local CIA man and an alluring doctor serving the indigenous tribes. As he closes in on the opium fields, he learns the hard way that that not all enemies are beyond the perimeter; someone in Cheo Reo wants him dead. Easy enough in a combat zone where killing is common and loyalties are for sale.
Red Flags is a masterly novel of soldiers and spies grappling with forces beyond their control and striving for the most basic goal in war—survival.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Wow
By Laura LeBarron
Excellent, moving story that brings the Vietnam War almost to close to home. Characters were well developed and scenes described in Soho much detail that it felt like I was watching a movie rather than reading a novel.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
An Engrossing and Tense Novel
By Michael P. Lefand
In this novel of espionage and intrigue Juris Jurjevics uses the Vietnam War as a setting for "Red Flags" as he tells a story of corruption and complicity with the VC (Viet Cong) and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) in the South Vietnam government and military. The story takes place in Cheo Reo located southeast of Pleiku in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam in a military region called II Corps in the year 1966.
The central character in the novel is Eric Rider who recounts his second tour in Vietnam as an undercover agent of CID (Criminal Investigation Division) in the U.S. Army to the daughter of Colonel Bennett whom he served under. Celeste, the colonel's daughter, never met her father and sought those who knew him 38 years ago in Vietnam for recollections of him.
Captain Rider's undercover mission in Cheo Reo was to cut off a pipeline of cash flowing into offshore enemy bank accounts from the growing, transporting and selling of marijuana and opium poppies (the dried milk of the opium poppy is used to produce heroin).
Note: marijuana plants could be found growing all over South Vietnam.
The plot was different from most war novels but Jurjevics story combines plenty of combat action, with patrols seeking intelligence, snatches, ambushes and the threat of a base camp being attacked and over run by North Vietnamese Regulars (NVA). Combine this with weeding out those who may be in collusion with the enemy and you have a great novel.
In addition, Jurjevics weaves into his novel the often forgotten native tribes of the highlands, the Montagnards (Montagnard is a name given by the French colonists meaning mountain people or people of the mountains). The various Montagnard tribes were fierce fighters who were treated unfavorably by the South Vietnamese. U.S. Special forces trained many "Yards" as allies in the Central Highlands to help fight the Viet Cong and NVA. Americans serving in Vietnam found the Montagnards more trustworthy than the South Vietnamese Army and they were often used as scouts.
Some Acronym explanations that might be helpful in reading "Red Flags."
MACV or Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.
CIDG or Civilian Irregular Defense Group was a counterinsurgency program (experiment) in the central highlands of South Vietnam.
LLDB or the Special Forces of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam who wore Red Berets. (Vietnamese: L'c L''ng ''c Bi't Quân L'c Vi't Nam C'ng Hòa) were the elite military units
FULRO is a French acronym for Front Unifie De Lutte Des Races Opprimees. A Montagnard organization whose objective is to win political autonomy and freedom.
Having served in Vietnam I can say Jurjevics conveys the imagery of the country accurately and although the work is one of fiction the frustration of combined actions with the South Vietnamese Army could not be closer to the truth. Juris Jurjevics novel "Red Flags" is a fast paced read that at times brought back memories both good and bad. I recommend it and give it 5 stars.
Michael P. Lefand Sgt, 1st Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Brigade, 4th Infantry Division.
1968 - 1970 Central Highlands South Vietnam
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great story that captures a little-know side of the war
By Lawrence Woodlock
This book is an unusually good example of an adventure/crime story that does have a few of the genre's usual flaws - the good guys may be a little too perfect, for example. But it has the very great merit of integrating a forgotten people (Montagnards) into a complex and interesting tale, and doing it very well indeed. It's particularly valuable in highlighting a side of the war neglected by novelists and historians alike: There were a lot of interesting people running around the countryside besides American soldiers. The mix of cultures (and the awesome landscape of the Central Highlands) are prominently and accurately featured in this tale.
I don't know if the official corruption at the heart of this story really was so vast. At lower levels, it was an obvious problem. I suspect the author's picture may well be true.
There is one small but apparent error I must mention. I found at page 231 (Kindle Edition) an indirect reference to the training of Special Forces Medics back in the 60s. I graduated from that course about three years after the dramatic date of this novel (and then went straight to an A-Team in Vietnam). At page 231 the author strongly implies that in part of this training, the dogs were mistreated. He is talking about what we called "Dog Lab," the very last few weeks of our nearly year-long medical education. Those final weeks were a surgical practicum. The animals were treated exactly like human patients. All invasive procedures were performed under full anesthesia - the safe and effective administration of anesthesia was a critical test for us. As was the survival of the dog. If a dog died and you were either its surgeon or the anesthesiologist, it was autopsied to see if the cause of death was heartworms. If none of those parasites were found, you were out of the program, and had just wasted a year of your life. No excuses, you were gone!
I think most of us cared about animals, and certainly many of us would have rebelled at the cruelty suggested in this particular reference. In reality, we all watched over those dogs day and night, and on weekends. If for no other reason, because an unsuccessful patient outcome resulted in an unsuccessful outcome for its caregiver. This simple fact, together with the fact that we were being trained and graded in the use of anesthesia, makes it highly unlikely that anesthesia was neglected in this training just a few years earlier. It is true that the animals were euthanized at the end. But it was done under anesthesia, by the introduction of Pentathol (if I remember correctly) into the sleeping animal.
So the author was probably not a medic. On a more positive (and typical) note, he describes just 20 pages later a compassionate gesture to a grieving American officer by a Montagnard ("Jarai Willy") that was SO spot on that I cannot help but think that the author must have witnessed an incident very much like it himself. That's what those people were like! Small details like these, found throughout the book, go far to explain why Americans lucky enough to have worked with Montagnards can never forget them. Occasional lapses in a book about a time and place so distant are easily forgiven when the story itself, and its non-American characters, are so carefully and accurately portrayed. That is a unique feature of this well-written novel.
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