Dog Soldiers - by Robert Stone (Paperback)

About the Book

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.

Book Synopsis

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

"A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemmingway's adventure stories...Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape." -New York Times Book Review

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.

Review Quotes

"A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemmingway's adventure stories...Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape." - New York Times Book Review

"Compulsively readable...As forcefully as any novel one can think of, this novel conveys the cynicism, the terror, and the appetite for new experiences that have marked recent years." - The New Yorker

"Stone's tale of heroin, smugglers, and moral striving remains one of the most relevant American crime novels ever written." - Crime Reads

"Dog Soldiers is so good, so interesting and series and funny and frightening, so absorbing, so impressive, so masterful...It is splendid, terrific action suspense." - Esquire

"A fastpaced, action-fraught novel." - Ploughshares

"A feverish novel of suspense, Dog Soldiers ranks alongside the work of Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien as an impassioned reckoning with how the Vietnam War changed America." - Madison Smartt Bell

"The most important novel of the year." - Washington Post