Garden of Eden: Vietnam 1955 -1975: A Novel

Just out of high school, Bubba was drifting from one scrape with the law after another. Red was too poor for college and too little for a football scholarship. John was in love with Samantha, but 86 proof was proving to be a third wheel. At the suggestion of a friend, the trio joins the Marines to pull their acts together.

Meanwhile, 9,000 miles away, an enemy waits in the jungles of Vietnam.

The 1960s were a decade of rebellion, fantastic music, drugs, and free sex. The pill had unburdened...