Play the Red Queen

Vietnam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Vietnam ‘advising’ the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer.

Set in the besieged capital of a new nation on the eve of the coup that would bring down the Diem regime and launch the Americans into the Vietnam War, Play the Red Queen is a tour-de-force mystery-cum-social history, breathtakingly atmospheric and heartbreakingly alive with the laws and lawlessness of war.

• For fans of Pulitzer Prize Winning The Sympathiser by Viet Thanh Nguyen (over 40,000 pb sold in the UK) and the best-selling Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (over 30,000 pb sold in the UK)
• The posthumous masterwork by critically acclaimed author, storied publisher, and Viet Nam veteran Juris Jurjevics-the story of two American GI cops caught in the corrupt cauldron of a Vietnamese civil war stoked red hot by revolution
• Juris Jurjevics was a co-founder of US publisher Soho Press and the author of two other novels which drew on his wartime experiences, The Trudeau Vector and Red Flags