27 Knots: A Novel

“An intense portrait of the men who, willingly and unwillingly, executed their [wartime] duties at the expense of their souls.” —James Brown, author of Lucky Town and The Los Angeles Diaries

Vance Leford was just a kid when he was shipped off to Vietnam. Along with seven others singled out by the US Navy, Vance was sent down the Mekong Delta on a napalm boat as part of the Mobile Riverine Force. Trained as a sniper, Vance’s mission was to destroy key Viet Cong lurking in the jungle that line...