The Last Hookers
 LTC Carle E. Dunn, USA-Ret
 (Guest Reviewer - Daryl A. Dillard)
 2001 1stBook Library
 ISBN: 0759655928

From Nazi Germany to Viet Nam the 362nd Aviation Company lived, loved & died.

The Last Hookers puts you in the cockpits with Army aviators throughout the battles in Viet Nam with the 362nd Aviation Company.

In this ambitious novel, Colonel Dunn brings to life worldwide events that led America to Viet Nam. Based on facts he traces events from Germany, Japan, Great Britain, France, North & South Viet Nam & the USA. He also sheds light into the dark corners of the CIA, the NSA & the White House from Presidents Truman to Nixon, as he tells the history of this honorable Company.

We follow Legionnaire Jean Danjou as he prepares for the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Frederick Earling in the CIA's decades long secret wars, & Lanny Briscoe in the NSA from World War II to the gathering storm over Viet Nam.

Guest Reviewer Daryl Dillard writes:

The Last Hookers has a good opening & obviously a good story to tell about the history of the Army aviators of the 362nd Aviation Company. However, the author of this long, sprawling book became hooked on “time bouncing” -- from present to past & back again. Together with the multiple plots & perspectives, while containing many, many segments of riveting interest, this reviewer was hard pressed to remember who, what, where & when.

LTC Carle E. Dunn's homework is excellent & the research well done & accurate. I understand the author tried to capture the concept of the previous French involvement in Indo-China (Viet Nam) except that the story becomes too involved.

One thing I got from The Last Hookers is that our politicians learned absolutely nothing from the French defeat in that region.

A worthy writing debut with enough information to warrant 3 teapots, but the complicated continuity was its downfall.
(10/12/03)

Guest Reviewer - Daryl A. Dillard
2002©Daryl A. Dillard