Lost Soldiers

by James H. Webb

First published 2001

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Former Marine Brandon Condley returns to Vietnam years after the war to help recover the remains of missing American servicemen. The country he once knew as a battlefield has changed, but Condley remains tied to it by memory, loss and unresolved loyalties. When a recovered body carries dog tags that do not belong to it, a routine identification mission becomes a mystery reaching back into the violence and betrayals of the war.

Condley’s search draws him through post-war Vietnam and into the lives of former allies, former enemies and officials who have their own reasons to keep the past buried. The investigation becomes a story of revenge and redemption as old wartime choices collide with the political and personal realities of a transformed country. Lost Soldiers combines suspense with a portrait of Vietnam after the American withdrawal and of people still living with the consequences of the conflict.