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Gum's Story
Fiction/Vietnam/Military
6 x 9; 250 pages
ISBN 1-891799-22-3
13-Digit ISBN
978-1-891799-22-8
Hardcover - $24.95
Publication Date: October 2002
Harbor House
Some promises are meant to be kept. It's been almost three decades since American airman Phillip Turner befriended a gutsy little Vietnamese boy on the war-torn streets of Saigon. But Phillip has never forgotten his enterprising little friend, nor the vow he made the day he was shot down in cold blood by a corrupt South Vietnamese Army colonel in a drug deal gone bad.
Now, thirty years later, a chance opportunity has presented itself to even the score - and nothing the CIA, the police, or even his own family can do will stand in the way of Phillip's hell-bent mission to track down and punish the elusive CIA-connected Colonel Chu.
Endorsements:
“Rick Turnbull’s Gum’s Story is a page-turner of a suspense novel… Turnbull has a terrific eye for the kind of significant detail that makes places as widely separated as wartime Saigon and peaceful St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, come entirely alive for its reader, and he writes as convincingly of the love of a man for the woman and children in his life as he does of smuggled drugs and cyber-manhunts on the internet.”
--Marshal Keys, Ph.D.“Rick writes well, builds characters well – and the ending is first-rate.”
--Maj. Gen. Perry Smith, CBS Military Affairs Analyst“Gum’s Story is a poignant look at a remarkable relationship that develops between a child of the Vietnam War and a U.S. Airman doing his duty and serving his country. This is a great book – caring, compassionate. Phillip Turner is our hero.”
--LTC Ronald Stephens, U.S. Army
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