Tree of Smoke

Denis Johnson · 2007 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

A young CIA operative, Skip Sands, works in the Philippines and then Vietnam in the 1960s for his uncle, a colonel with a private psychological-warfare project. Alongside them, two enlisted brothers from Arizona have their own war; Johnson's long novel of the conflict and the covert will behind it.

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