Dog Soldiers
- Author Robert Stone
- Narrator Tom Stechschulte
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 15 April 2008
- Run Time 11 hours and 25 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction.
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What to expect
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action—and profit—by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. His courier disappears—probably with his wife—and a corrupt Fed wants Converse to find them and the drugs. Or else.
Dog Soldiers is a frightening, powerful, intense novel that perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers. Stone details an American drama of greed and violence in a world where life is cheap and the price of survival dangerously high.
Critics Review
“Narrator Tom Stechschulte offers a firm reading that relates the novel’s events in a realistic and entertaining manner. He portrays Converse as a terse, hard-nosed character who still manages to be likable. Stechschulte’s delivery is remarkably solid throughout. His characters’ voices adjust accordingly as they journey through the plot. A gripping performance, to say the least.”
“Harrowing…white-knuckled suspense…A here-and-now journey to hell.”
“A dark decendant of Conrad and Hemingway’s adventure stories…Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape.”
“Compulsively readable…As forcefully as any novel one can think of, this novel conveys the cynicism, the terror, and the appetite for new experiences that have marked recent years.”
“Dog Soldiers is a novel so good, so interesting and serious and funny and frightening, so absorbing, so impressive, so masterful…It is splendid, terrific action suspense.”
“Powerful, literally chilling.”
“Stone’s Dog Soldiers became a seminal text for disaffected youth
across the country but especially those returning home from war only to find
themselves out of step, ostracized, or just wondering what the hell had
happened—a generation of young men, drafted and armed, who came to recognize
just how little anyone in power cared about the value or quality of their
lives.”
“The language is stripped and strong…[with] unerring dialogue and characterization.”
| Author | Robert Stone |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Tom Stechschulte |
| Duration | 11 hours and 25 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781602833838 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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