Sergeant Dickinson is the 05-Bravo -- the radioman -- of a Special Forces A Team in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in the mid-sixties.The camp is encircled and attacked for nine days by the North Vietnamese Army, anxious to lure large American forces into combat for the first time. He survives,...
Called "stunning and suspenseful" (Andrea Barrett, Outside), and "exquisitely detailed" (Alan Cheuse, NPR), The Forty Fathom Bank is a gripping novella of adventure and desperation in the tradition of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Finally back in print, this acclaimed cult classic tells the s...
The University of Washington owned an apartment building at the corner of 15th and 40th Northeast called the Commodore-Duchess. I don’t remember the details of the story of how the building got its name, but originally there were two buildings. And there was something about two brothers, one of w...