Nightmares that Kill

Nightmares that Kill

A short while after being accepted as a student at New York University, Ted Harris, a Canadian, replaces a sick friend at his workplace, thus violating the conditions of his student’s visa. To avoid being expulsed from the USA, he joins the Marine Corps which implies taking courses on ‘Military Strategy and The Use of Explosives’ in addition to ‘Basic Training.’

As a result of a Presidential decision, Ted is precipitated into a long-lasting confrontation with the North Vietnamese Secret Service Commander.

Nguyen Quang Hung, a South Vietnamese Special Forces Officer, becomes Ted’s teammate in various undercover operations.

Ted witnesses his fellow soldiers being turned into human torches, stabbed by falling bamboo traps, shot or beheaded.

Ted is overwhelmed by guilt building nightmares—his dead fellow soldiers asking him if his survival is fair when they had to pay the ultimate price.

From one skirmish to another across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Ted and Hung keep crossing swords with an anonymous general called ‘General Shadow’ by the Americans. Eventually, Ted and Hung are captured and tortured. They narrowly escape death.

The illusive General Shadow, in his spiteful will to defeat Ted at all costs, gets his fiancée executed.

Ted is overwhelmed by his recurring nightmares which gradually he cannot distinguish from reality.

After barely surviving the green jungle of Vietnam, is Ted going to be overcome by his nightmares of the jungle?

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Nightmares that Kill

Nightmares that Kill

A short while after being accepted as a student at New York University, Ted Harris, a Canadian, replaces a sick friend at his workplace, thus violating the conditions of his student’s visa. To avoid being expulsed from the USA, he joins the Marine Corps which implies taking courses on ‘Military Strategy and The Use of Explosives’ in addition to ‘Basic Training.’

As a result of a Presidential decision, Ted is precipitated into a long-lasting confrontation with the North Vietnamese Secret Service Commander.

Nguyen Quang Hung, a South Vietnamese Special Forces Officer, becomes Ted’s teammate in various undercover operations.

Ted witnesses his fellow soldiers being turned into human torches, stabbed by falling bamboo traps, shot or beheaded.

Ted is overwhelmed by guilt building nightmares—his dead fellow soldiers asking him if his survival is fair when they had to pay the ultimate price.

From one skirmish to another across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Ted and Hung keep crossing swords with an anonymous general called ‘General Shadow’ by the Americans. Eventually, Ted and Hung are captured and tortured. They narrowly escape death.

The illusive General Shadow, in his spiteful will to defeat Ted at all costs, gets his fiancée executed.

Ted is overwhelmed by his recurring nightmares which gradually he cannot distinguish from reality.

After barely surviving the green jungle of Vietnam, is Ted going to be overcome by his nightmares of the jungle?

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Nightmares that Kill

A short while after being accepted as a student at New York University, Ted Harris, a Canadian, replaces a sick friend at his workplace, thus violating the conditions of his student’s visa. To avoid being expulsed from the USA, he joins the Marine Corps which implies taking courses on ‘Military Strategy and The Use of Explosives’ in addition to ‘Basic Training.’

As a result of a Presidential decision, Ted is precipitated into a long-lasting confrontation with the North Vietnamese Secret Service Commander.

Nguyen Quang Hung, a South Vietnamese Special Forces Officer, becomes Ted’s teammate in various undercover operations.

Ted witnesses his fellow soldiers being turned into human torches, stabbed by falling bamboo traps, shot or beheaded.

Ted is overwhelmed by guilt building nightmares—his dead fellow soldiers asking him if his survival is fair when they had to pay the ultimate price.

From one skirmish to another across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Ted and Hung keep crossing swords with an anonymous general called ‘General Shadow’ by the Americans. Eventually, Ted and Hung are captured and tortured. They narrowly escape death.

The illusive General Shadow, in his spiteful will to defeat Ted at all costs, gets his fiancée executed.

Ted is overwhelmed by his recurring nightmares which gradually he cannot distinguish from reality.

After barely surviving the green jungle of Vietnam, is Ted going to be overcome by his nightmares of the jungle?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9782765912101
Publisher: Osmora Inc.
Publication date: 03/16/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 634 KB

About the Author

About the Author

Jean-Pierre Plouffe was born in 1939 in the peaceful town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec —across the world from Vietnam.

Avidly pursuing Classical Studies in college, he cultivated knowledge of languages (including Latin and classical Greek), mathematics, science, history, and sports. His insatiable hunger for understanding and communication drove him to engage in theatre arts, public speaking, and debate. After attending teacher’s college, he taught mathematics; upon obtaining his B.A. at Montréal University, he earned his M.A. at NYU, specializing in Industrial and Road Safety; he then trained high school Driver Education instructors in various universities across Canada and at the Professional Truck Driving School.

While studying at NYU, the Vietnam War was a constant preoccupation for the campus population—actually: a parallel Vietnam War was being fought.

Warriors returning home—emotionally damaged for ever— haunt the nations involved in the conflict.

In addition to acting as a consultant in the production of fourteen safety films, Jean Pierre Plouffe represented Transport Canada in an international research project at the OECD in Paris and Vienna, with short research sessions in a variety of countries. He then merged his expertise in teaching with his natural inclination towards writing by authoring training manuals for a North American market. By way of professional research, and through observations, gained during his numerous journeys abroad, Jean-Pierre—an ardent traveler—witnessed how human emotions—modified by the hellish context of armed conflicts compel those who are involved to make unpredictable choices. Inspired by such awareness, he currently draws from this treasure trove of experience and transforms it into an act of storytelling.

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