Vietnam Redux: For Some The Vietnam War Never Ended by Howard B. Cohen is a military history novel. Frank Stone and Benny Friedman are ex-Special Forces who are asked to return to Vietnam to carry out a secret mission. Both are a little skeptical about the mission, but are assured by George Darnell, an old friend of theirs, that it is all okay. When the Vietnam War was raging, Montagnards (Vietnamese from the Central Highlands) fought with the US and, over the course of time, respect grew between the two sides. Now, the Vietnamese government is planning to carry out a form of ethnic cleansing. Tran Van Throng, head of the Environmental Adjustment Agency, sets up special camps for the Montagnards and it is up to Benny and Frank to save the Montagnards from being wiped off the face of the earth.

Vietnam Redux: For Some The Vietnam War Never Ended by Howard B. Cohen is a brilliantly written piece of work. I was grateful for the short history lesson at the beginning, and found it very interesting reading. The novel itself was a gripper, full of action, full of twists and turns, and new developments in the plot kept me reading. It was interesting to read the flashbacks as they helped to shed light on the Vietnam War, a subject I am ashamed to say I know little about. What is concerning is that this very thing goes on day after day and we are all too busy with our own lives to stop and think about what might be happening to others, or to do anything about it. This is an eye-opener in more ways than one and I cannot praise Mr. Cohen enough for bringing us this well-written story, with a well-thought out plot and clearly developed characters.