The Last Hookers: From Nazi Germany to Viet Nam They Lived, They Loved, They Died

The Last Hookers is an epic in James Michener style and intriguing in techno-military detail as Tom Clancy's best work. It's a gripping tale of intrigue, romance, danger, and death. From President Roosevelt to President Nixon, its basis is historical fact. Gleaned from recently declassified documents and the author's personal experiences, you will be on the inside of the White House and covert Black Operations. It is truly a "I cannot put it down" book. You will marvel at each paragraph while anticipating the next chapter.

It starts at Muong Valley in deep western North Viet Nam. Nguyen Van Vinh, a North Vietnamese youth, is fighting the French at Dien Bien Phu, which is his home. He controls artillery attacks against invading French Legionnaires in General Navarre's flawed Operation Castor.

At Dien Bien Phu, a former French resistance fighter against Hitler, Legionnaire Lieutenant Jean Danjou is on a covert operation. His mission is to place navigational beacons to guide American B-29s to deliver nuclear weapons against the Viet Minh. President Eisenhower's approved Operation Vulture is underway. After bombing the Viet Minh, subsequent atomic attacks will take place against Communist China and the Soviet Union.

Across the border in Laos, Central Intelligence Agency controlled Air America, fights a secret war against the Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao is the Communist equivalent of North Viet Nam's Viet Minh. Frederick Earling, a fighter pilot during the Battle of Great Britain, flies clandestine missions to help destroy Communist forces.

Unknown to the American public, their nation's first casualties in the Viet Nam war take place at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Ironically, the United States is supporting Ho Chi Minh's Communist efforts while also paying 80 percent of France's costs in this dirty little war. This takes place as American soldiers die in Korea for lack of vitally needed supplies. Ho Chi Minh is using them in North Viet Nam. The United States supplies them to him.

In Washington, D.C., Lanny Briscoe, a member of the newly formed, super-secret National Security Agency (NSA) learns of Eisenhower's planned atomic attack. As Eisenhower's former Office of Strategic Services (OSS) adviser during World War II, he helped decode Germany's innermost secrets by using information from Hitler's enigma device. Briscoe becomes embroiled in a Central Intelligence Agency double agent's plot to deprive the United States of its most sensitive technological secrets. His efforts, as a NSA operative, take him into a cauldron of intrigue in Southeast Asia.

In South Carolina, Nguyen Van Vinh's counterpart, Dale Zane lives the life of a typical American youth, while attending high school and college. He enters the United States Army and becomes an Army aviator. He commands the last Chinook (Hook) helicopter unit in Viet Nam during the most intense battle of that war, the spring invasion of 1972.

North Viet Nam's hero, General Giap, attacks to capture Saigon with over 120,000 infantry and 1,200 armored vehicles. His intent is to take the small town of An Loc, 65 miles from Saigon, and establish a provisional, Communist capital in the south. After securing An Loc, his forces will attack Saigon. The battle lasts over three months. Dale Zane is one of few remaining Americans in Viet Nam and pits his aviation unit against invading Communist forces.

The author, Lieutenant Colonel Carle E. Dunn, USA-Ret., after a three year research effort, entwines lives into a fabric of lies, deceit, courage, and romance that spans the globe. Prepare for a literary taste of a gourmet dinner served up over half a century.