Vietnam's tropical landscape first captivated fifteen year-old Joseph Sherman on a hunting expedition to Saigon with his family in 1925. Lured back again and again by his enduring fascination for the country and for Lan, a beautiful Vietnamese mandarin's daughter he could never forget, Joseph and his family become deeply enmeshed with Vietnam's turbulent, war-torn fate.

In this second volume at My Lai, in the notorious 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and during the devastating Tet Offensive, Joseph and his own sons share the suffering of those divided Vietnamese families with whom the Shermans forge life-long links. As Saigon falls, Joseph returns for the last time in a deperate attempt to slavage something worthwhile from the ruins.

'The ringing irony of SAIGON is that a major work of fiction was required to adequately explain the fundamental tragedy of the United States involvement in Vietnam... This is a novel of terrible importance.'  Kansas City Star

'An absorbing saga, an epic novel... Anthony Grey is not just a man of steely courage as his survival of two years as a hostage in Peking demonstrated; he is one of that rare species - a born storyteller.'  John Dickie, Daily Mail, London

'One of the most memorable love stories of our time.'  West Coast Review of Books