The author ejects From his burning Navy jet onto a karst ridge near Hanoi, and what follows is one of the most implausible and heroic rescues of the air-war.
When he departs for college, he believes he\'s done w.
It begins in Saigon, where he completes high school and comes to love the Vietnamese people.
The larger story, however, is of a man\'s complex relationship with Vietnam.
The events immediately following carry him to a secret base in Laos and then to a makeshift hospital in Saigon.
The author ejects From his burning Navy jet onto a karst ridge near Hanoi, and what follows is one of the most implausible and heroic rescues of the air-war