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|  | | A Long Way Back
Black soldiers thought to be killed in action mysteriously reappear in Cu Chi, Vietnam. A curious war correspondent uncovers an illegal army mission gone awry.
When a reporter for the Washington Post sees a group of wounded, half-starved, black troops disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi during the height of the Vietnam War, he senses a story, but receives no cooperation from the army or the soldiers.
The men, mostly noncombat soldiers, are the remnant of a squad sent on an illegal mission to Cambodia as punishment for their participation in a race riot at Cu Chi base camp. Led by a battle-fatigued sergeant, they fall under enemy fire. Their leader inexplicably disappears, leaving the ill-prepared soldiers to fight the jungle and enemy on their o | |  | | Snake Walkers
A novel of terror, intrigue,
enlightenment and redemption.
Traumatized as a child after witnessing a hanging, the first black
reporter at a southern newspaper in the 1960's attempts to solve the
mysterious abandonment of a small town and the disappearance
of fourteen townspeople. His investigation leads him from rural
Arkansas to Cleveland, Ohio as he tries to uncover a family secret kept
hidden for more than a decade. The closer he gets to the truth, the more
he must question his own motives since his quest also points him
toward a path that leads to his own salvation. | |  | | Something About Ann
Something About Ann is a historical fiction novella with eleven mostly interconnected short stories. The novella and the short stories follow a group of soldiers who faced a traumatic experience in Vietnam but remained close after returning to the States.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In the novella, /span>i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Something About Ann/i>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, a black Vietnam veteran and a Vietnamese woman fall in love in Cleveland, Ohio, not knowing they were once combatants. Clarence Bankston returns from the Vietnam War shaken by his experience. After seeing Ann Minh, a Vietnamese, at a party, he is repulsed because she is a reminder of a war he doesn’t want to relive. Once she initiates a conversation |
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