Message from Nam
Danielle Steel
Random House Publishing Group
<p>As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience&nbsp;&nbsp;Vietnam firsthand. We<br>
follow her from high school in Savannah to&nbsp;&nbsp;college in Berkeley and then<br>
 to work in Saigon.<br><br>For the soldiers she&nbsp;&nbsp;knew and met there,<br>
Viet Nam would change their&nbsp;&nbsp;lives in ways they could never have<br>
imagined. For the men&nbsp;&nbsp;in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in<br>
 ways hey could not&nbsp;&nbsp;escape or deny. Peter&nbsp;&nbsp;Wilson, fresh from law<br>
school, was a new recruit&nbsp;&nbsp;who would confont his fate in Da Nang.<br>
Ralph&nbsp;&nbsp;Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in&nbsp;&nbsp;Saigon since<br>
the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the&nbsp;&nbsp;war inside out. Bill Quinn,<br>
captain of the Cu Chi&nbsp;&nbsp;tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and<br>
it&nbsp;&nbsp;seemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant Tony&nbsp;&nbsp;Campobello had come<br>
to Vietnam from the streets of&nbsp;&nbsp;New York to vent a rage that had<br>
followed him all the way to Saigon.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>For seven years&nbsp;&nbsp;Paxton<br>
Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;column from the front before<br>
 finally returning to the&nbsp;&nbsp;States and then attending the Paris peace<br>
talks.&nbsp;&nbsp;But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam,&nbsp;&nbsp;life would<br>
never be the same again.</p>