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Title: An Honorable Endeavor
Author: William Clark
Narrator: Stephen J. Holowid
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-14
Publisher: William Clark
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The time is 1993, a young Democratic President has been swept into the White House. It is a time of cautious hope - all white noise to a dramatic story that surrounds a deeply psychotic US soldier who has lived in the jungles of Vietnam for the past 20 years. By accident, the man discovers American POWs in a camp in the haunted and rugged central highlands. Stunned by the discovery, he decides to free the prisoners. During his escape, he runs across two Vietnam Veterans who have come to Vietnam on a civilian aircraft recovery mission. In a rare moment of clarity, he forcibly takes them to see the POWs. The group finds itself racing to escape the North Vietnamese army in a desperate struggle that could everything on the world stage.
Members Reviews:
An Enjoyable Reading Endeavor
William Clark's first novel, 'An Honorable Endeavor', is full of reading pleasures: Techno-thriller detail, likable and complicated characters, heroics writ large and small, and vivid landscapes and cityscapes. Above all, it's laced with a deep pathos about war in general, and for those who fight wars -- both friendlies and enemies -- in particular. With America's ongoing foreign wars, and the men and women still returning from overseas emotionally and physically shattered, Mr. Clark's empathy for the warrior class is what resonated with me most in his novel.
Before I go on, I have to say that this self-published book, like so many before it, needs a professional editor's attention. Here's the main reason I say so: If the author's current and future work generates a groundswell of grassroots interest, much like Hugh Howey's 'Wool' series did, his books will need to read more smoothly. There are so many poignant themes and so much beautiful use of language in this novel; it deserves to be read widely. It's too good of a debut novel for the mental speedbumps that come along with reading it.
On the other hand, it's the rapid-transition-to-market provided by internet self-publishing that allows authors like Hugh Howey and William Clark to get their work out there for readers who can appreciate it.
Long story short: I'm in for the next William Clark novel.
Excelent Book!
Great read! Hard to put down. Very much like you were there â even if you were not! You can smell the jungle â the visualization is there. The main characters are not immune and are not the invincible ones, as in other books. Weaving several different storylines and characters together at the right time and place to create a book that is as true to life as it gets. Having served in the Marines and in VietNam, it brings back memories of the time and place and some of the political posturing both then and now. Definitely a five star book â Even Tom Clancy would love this one!
If we really only knew
Quite the premise of this book. Will we ever really know how many got left behind? This story moved right along, kept this reader engaged in the action. Would recommend this anyone who was there and to anyone who wondered what is was in the Nam.
Four Stars
Very well written.
captures a lot of the feelings we Vietnam Nam vets have to live with.
Could use an editor for the typos, most of which seem to occur in the last 20% of the book. Still it was a good story line with interesting character development. I would buy his next novel.
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Title: An Honorable Endeavor
Author: William Clark
Narrator: Stephen J. Holowid
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-14
Publisher: William Clark
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The time is 1993, a young Democratic President has been swept into the White House. It is a time of cautious hope - all white noise to a dramatic story that surrounds a deeply psychotic US soldier who has lived in the jungles of Vietnam for the past 20 years. By accident, the man discovers American POWs in a camp in the haunted and rugged central highlands. Stunned by the discovery, he decides to free the prisoners. During his escape, he runs across two Vietnam Veterans who have come to Vietnam on a civilian aircraft recovery mission. In a rare moment of clarity, he forcibly takes them to see the POWs. The group finds itself racing to escape the North Vietnamese army in a desperate struggle that could everything on the world stage.
Members Reviews:
An Enjoyable Reading Endeavor
William Clark's first novel, 'An Honorable Endeavor', is full of reading pleasures: Techno-thriller detail, likable and complicated characters, heroics writ large and small, and vivid landscapes and cityscapes. Above all, it's laced with a deep pathos about war in general, and for those who fight wars -- both friendlies and enemies -- in particular. With America's ongoing foreign wars, and the men and women still returning from overseas emotionally and physically shattered, Mr. Clark's empathy for the warrior class is what resonated with me most in his novel.
Before I go on, I have to say that this self-published book, like so many before it, needs a professional editor's attention. Here's the main reason I say so: If the author's current and future work generates a groundswell of grassroots interest, much like Hugh Howey's 'Wool' series did, his books will need to read more smoothly. There are so many poignant themes and so much beautiful use of language in this novel; it deserves to be read widely. It's too good of a debut novel for the mental speedbumps that come along with reading it.
On the other hand, it's the rapid-transition-to-market provided by internet self-publishing that allows authors like Hugh Howey and William Clark to get their work out there for readers who can appreciate it.
Long story short: I'm in for the next William Clark novel.
Excelent Book!
Great read! Hard to put down. Very much like you were there â even if you were not! You can smell the jungle â the visualization is there. The main characters are not immune and are not the invincible ones, as in other books. Weaving several different storylines and characters together at the right time and place to create a book that is as true to life as it gets. Having served in the Marines and in VietNam, it brings back memories of the time and place and some of the political posturing both then and now. Definitely a five star book â Even Tom Clancy would love this one!
If we really only knew
Quite the premise of this book. Will we ever really know how many got left behind? This story moved right along, kept this reader engaged in the action. Would recommend this anyone who was there and to anyone who wondered what is was in the Nam.
Four Stars
Very well written.
captures a lot of the feelings we Vietnam Nam vets have to live with.
Could use an editor for the typos, most of which seem to occur in the last 20% of the book. Still it was a good story line with interesting character development. I would buy his next novel.