F.N.G., Revised Edition - by Donald Bodey (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Gabriel Sauers of Two Squad is a soldier, newly arrived in Vietnam--a country too beautiful to invite so savagely unreal a war. But Gabriel won't be a New Guy for long. He'll go through incoming mortars, he'll see the enemy alive. He'll wander through a hell that will turn the green recruit lucky enough to survive into a death-hardened veteran, longing for nothing more than a return to the world of hot baths and cold beer, no bullets, and no noise. Now, 40 years later, he is grappling with an action on the verge of his grandson Seth's deployment to Iraq that will change both their lives forever.

Critics Praise Don Bodey's F.N.G

"One of the most hard-hitting of all the vietnam novels" -- The Boston Herald

"A powerful social document and a well-written, deeply moving first novel...highly recommended" --The Library Journal "Raw, profane...a candidly moving portrayal of the average American soldier in Vietnam, who often found courage when he did not seek it--but little of anything else." --Chicago Sun-Times

"The day to day grind, beautifully and touchingly rendered by...a Vietnam veteran, is told with an unrelenting accumulation of detail." --The New York Times Book Review

"Bodey packs considerable emotional freight...into a style that remains deliberately supple, cool, and declarative...An impressive novel." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A harrowing vividly written account of hell with a leavening of light moments. A revelation for one who wasn't there. Painful for those who were." -Bob Mason, author of CHICKENHAWK

"All Quiet on the Western Front drives its readers to the front of World War I. F.N.G helicopters its readers to a new front: Vietnam." -Bestsellers

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Review Quotes

"Vietnam veteran Donald Bodey captures the fears and ap-prehensions of every infantryman... if you like adventure, a true picture of combat and the chance to look into the combat veter-an's mind, F.N.G. is your kind of book."
--Mike Mooney, Stars & Stripes Korea Bureau Chief

"F.N.G. makes me glad I wasn't a grunt. Bodey's unsparing eye illuminates detail after detail of the precarious life they led. Dirt, smells, sounds, fears, sudden death, friendship, drugs, bugs, each incident etches itself vividly in the reader's con-sciousness."
--Bob Mason, author of Chickenhawk

"When I first read a draft F.N.G. in 1980, it rang true and it's still on target for the thousands I have worked with over the last 28 years. It still rings true today with each new wave of combat veterans, wherever they are returning from. The bottom line is that war still sucks and the damage seems unending if one fol-lows the ripples to where they ultimately arrive."
--Rick Ritter, MSW, Ed. of. Made in America, Sold in the Nam

"A vivid, frequently moving book that takes the reader on a trip into the reality of war. The reader suffers with these men, and sometimes even smiles at their antics as they slog through the jungles. This is a hard book to forget."
--James Hill, Rocky Mountain News

"Bodey brings back alive the particular horrors of that par-ticular war so well that we participate in it with frightening directness. His prose is exacting, his rendering of evocative de-tails thoroughly accomplished, and the pacing absolutely absorbing."
--Barry Silesky, Chicago Magazine

"Bodey writes in an extremely realistic vein...that gives F.N.G. authenticity and strength. All in all, a moving book, both an ex-ercise in memory, and a bittersweet exorcism."
--Kirkus Previews

"A documentary-style, first-person account of one soldier's year in the mud-soaked dugouts near the Cambodian border... reading the book is as close as any of us would want to get to the experience."
--Robert Merritt, Richmond Times

"Bodey's first novel captures the reader. All Quiet on the Western Front drives its readers to the front of World War I. F.N.G. helicopters its readers to a new front: Vietnam."
--Robert E. Shimokoski, Jr., Bestsellers

"Raw, profane...a candidly moving portrayal of the average American soldier in Vietnam, who often found courage when he did not seek it--but little of anything else."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"The day-to-day grind, beautifully and touchingly rendered by...a Vietnam veteran, is told with an unrelenting accumulation of detail. His characters are flesh and blood."
--Charles Salzberg, The New York Times Book Review

"Bodey packs considerable emotional freight...into a style that remains deliberately supple, cool, and declarative...An impressive novel."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"The publication of this work conveys this importance this author places on accurately portraying the war through the eyes of an infantryman."
--Illinois Daily Herald