The Committed

This thrilling follow-up to Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer finds tortured and guilt-ridden former Vietnamese spy-turned-sleeper agent Vo Danh and his Blood Brother, Bon, living as refugees in 1980’s Paris. A story of obligation and assimilation, they try to build a new life for themselves selling for a drug lord they met at their refugee camp. Driven by money, drugs and geopolitics, The Committed is a master class in hidden identity and narrative voice, capturing a fractured mind and the instability of post-colonial life.