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Thu, 07/09/2009 - 23:00
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AMERICAN AUTHOR PROMOTES DEBUT NOVEL
HCM City (VNA) – American author Hugh Scott was recently in Ho Chi Minh City to promote his debut novel, Saigon Gold.
The book tells the story of Robert Anderson who returns to Vietnam to seek
atonement for the civilian casualties during the American War. But soon after
checking into the Caravelle Hotel in HCM City , he is thrust into a dangerous
scheme to help a war-time friend recover a fortune in gold that sank in the Sai
Gon River in 1975.
Anderson meets a Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) romantic interest, Jenny Ngo,
and the stakes quickly escalate. Unaware they are being watched, Anderson and Ngo
frantically race the length of scenic Vietnam in a desperate effort to elude
their deadly pursuers.
“At the beginning, the book’s lead character is opposed by a veteran from the
North who watches his actions,” Scott says. “But by the end they are working
together to solve the mystery.”
The proceeds from the first print of 1,000 copies will be given to a Vietnamese
charity, possibly one connected with the Rotary International Club, the author
says.
He hopes that the book will encourage other American authors to write for readers in
Vietnam , not only tourists and returning veterans but also Vietnamese interested
in American perspectives on Vietnam .
Scott, 71, was a newspaper reporter, Vietnam War veteran, financial manager, and
part-time instructor at the University of San Francisco and the UC Berkeley
International Diploma Program.
He is now retired and lives with his wife of 48 years, Christine.
Saigon Gold is being published by the The Gioi Publishing House in Hanoi and is
available at TRI Books, Red Door Deco, Xu, Skewers, and La Camargue restaurants in
HCM City.-Enditem
The book tells the story of Robert Anderson who returns to Vietnam to seek
atonement for the civilian casualties during the American War. But soon after
checking into the Caravelle Hotel in HCM City , he is thrust into a dangerous
scheme to help a war-time friend recover a fortune in gold that sank in the Sai
Gon River in 1975.
Anderson meets a Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) romantic interest, Jenny Ngo,
and the stakes quickly escalate. Unaware they are being watched, Anderson and Ngo
frantically race the length of scenic Vietnam in a desperate effort to elude
their deadly pursuers.
“At the beginning, the book’s lead character is opposed by a veteran from the
North who watches his actions,” Scott says. “But by the end they are working
together to solve the mystery.”
The proceeds from the first print of 1,000 copies will be given to a Vietnamese
charity, possibly one connected with the Rotary International Club, the author
says.
He hopes that the book will encourage other American authors to write for readers in
Vietnam , not only tourists and returning veterans but also Vietnamese interested
in American perspectives on Vietnam .
Scott, 71, was a newspaper reporter, Vietnam War veteran, financial manager, and
part-time instructor at the University of San Francisco and the UC Berkeley
International Diploma Program.
He is now retired and lives with his wife of 48 years, Christine.
Saigon Gold is being published by the The Gioi Publishing House in Hanoi and is
available at TRI Books, Red Door Deco, Xu, Skewers, and La Camargue restaurants in
HCM City.-Enditem