PREVIEW
After surviving a helicopter crash during the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, Marine corporal Jason McBride and his fellow survivors are captured and tortured by a sadistic Viet Cong captain. Afterward, orchestrating a harrowing escape, Jason is awarded the Silver Star for bravery. Now, in contemporary America, with the world on the brink of war over dwindling oil supplies, Jason finds that he and his men are being hunted down by the CIA, under orders from the President to get them off the streets, dead or alive. What happened in Vietnam to make Jason, now a rich and powerful attorney, the victim of a nationwide manhunt? Betrayed by the country they sacrificed for, can Jason and his fellow Marines get to the bottom of things before they are killed? Or will they go the way of countless other veterans, caught up in a web of lies and deceit with some of the most powerful men in Washington?
REVIEW
CIA, FBI, political intrigue, romance, growing up in the '60s, Marines, the war in Vietnam, its impact on present-day U.S. - Gary Carter combines all the best ingredients of an action thriller and writes a well-told story. He takes his readers on a credible ride from the uncertainty of adolescence to coming of age in Vietnam to taking on the President of the U.S. He doesn't shy away from presenting the horrors of that war and the horrors faced by those who came home. For the Good of Many is a fast-paced page turner, good entertainment nicely rounded out with historical fact, local California and Oregon color, and a great female character who flies helicopters.
