(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Kent Anderson
1) Green Sun
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kent Anderson returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself.
A 2019 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home...
2) Night Dogs
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon.
Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there for punishment, and those who come for the action. Officer Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to decide he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--unlike anything else in war literature.
Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of Yeats's poems in his uniform pocket, he has no idea of what he's about to face in Vietnam--from the enemy, from his fellow soldiers, or within himself. In vivid, nightmarish, and finely etched...