Howard R. Simpson is one of the best memoirists you probably have never heard of—unless you happen to be a historian of the Vietnam War. He was a Foreign Service officer who worked for the U.S. Information Agency and, after retirement, became a novelist.
Monkey paw soup : and tales of drugs, thugs, revolution, & war
A book of non-fiction short stories. Captured as a civilian USAID/CIA pilot in Laos in 1965, Captain Brace spent almost 8 years as a POW in Laos Cages and Hanoi Prisons. After being released in 1973, Ernie Brace was back in Saigon in 1974 re-positioning aircraft and pilots to Peace
