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Synopsis
An acclaimed and controversial account of the Vietnam era follows a college student who discovers his own capacity for violence when he becomes a Green Beret during the Vietnam War and is forever changed by the experience. Reprint.
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About the Author
Kent Anderson is a former police officer, a former Special Forces sergeant in Vietnam, and the author of Night Dogs. He lives in Idaho.
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some critics for its brutality but heralded by others as a modern-day classic, Sympathy for the Devil is a terrifying, intoxicating journey through the violence, madness, and insane beauty of battle. It traces the story of a hardened Green Beret named Hanson, a college student who goes to war with a book of Yeats's poetry in his pocket and discovers the savagery within himself.
In this extraordinary novel, we follow Hanson through two tours of duty and a bitter attempt to live as a civilian in between. At one with the lush and dangerous world around him in Vietnam, Hanson is doomed to survive the landscape of devastation he encounters. Sympathy for the Devil contains some of the most vivid, finely etched prose ever written about the actual process of war--from firing a weapon for the first time in battle to the moment a young man knows that he has entered a living hell and found a home....
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, 2000
ISBN 10: 0553580876
ISBN 13: 9780553580877
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Fair. Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there as punishment, and those who come--and stay--for the action. Office Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to find he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson is good at war, and at least here he can pick his battles following his own code of justice.But Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. His past threatens his future now: An enemy in the department is determined outfight Hanson, by unearthing the darkest agonies of his war record. When another piece of his past surfaces, Hanson risks his career, his sanity, even his life, for honor. Seller Inventory # 00107680687
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Sympathy for the Devil
Published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, 2000
ISBN 10: 0553580876
ISBN 13: 9780553580877
Used
Softcover
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there as punishment, and those who come--and stay--for the action. Office Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to find he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson is good at war, and at least here he can pick his battles following his own code of justice.But Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. His past threatens his future now: An enemy in the department is determined outfight Hanson, by unearthing the darkest agonies of his war record. When another piece of his past surfaces, Hanson risks his career, his sanity, even his life, for honor. Seller Inventory # CIN0553580876G
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Sympathy for the Devil
Published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, 2000
ISBN 10: 0553580876
ISBN 13: 9780553580877
Used
Softcover
Seller: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there as punishment, and those who come--and stay--for the action. Office Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to find he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson is good at war, and at least here he can pick his battles following his own code of justice.But Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. His past threatens his future now: An enemy in the department is determined outfight Hanson, by unearthing the darkest agonies of his war record. When another piece of his past surfaces, Hanson risks his career, his sanity, even his life, for honor. Seller Inventory # CIN0553580876G
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Sympathy for the Devil
Published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, 2000
ISBN 10: 0553580876
ISBN 13: 9780553580877
Used
Softcover
Seller: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Condition: Fair. Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there as punishment, and those who come--and stay--for the action. Office Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to find he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson is good at war, and at least here he can pick his battles following his own code of justice.But Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. His past threatens his future now: An enemy in the department is determined outfight Hanson, by unearthing the darkest agonies of his war record. When another piece of his past surfaces, Hanson risks his career, his sanity, even his life, for honor. Seller Inventory # CIN0553580876A
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