Caution here is pungent MASH Chainsaw
All the forgotten of the american way of Life wade in the m ****, mud, blood, sweat and tears. Two characters float: Krummel and Morning kinds of Marlow and Kurtz decals. They appreciate, hate, hate, respect each other, one is his superior and the other military career is tortured idealist and Frapa crazy.
They are stationed in the Philippines and of course Vietnam is a burst of M.60 away.
Who will have the upper hand? War, booze and madness?
This is not a book popularizing the Vietnam War, if you like the Lord of the pigsties, Fante, and others that should please you.
If the atmosphere at the Samuel Fuller, the atmosphere of Salvador Oliver Stone, or De Palma outrages you speak, so it should.
If instead you seek a Manichean book then this is not for you, the kind of simplistic view full metal jacket
I have been thrilled with the strength in this book, it has been for me a mix between journey to the end of the night, the heart of darkness, Bukowski, really a great book underrated I think.
And that does not spoil anything, Crumley wrote well, some would call it unnecessary digressions, I see my poetry or lyricism, mashed for a first work he put the bar pretty high with this dear James.