 The Wall of
Broken Dreams
by Duke Barrett
Fiction, Thriller, Adventure,
Vietnam
$14.95
Duke will give MWSA members a
significant discount.
The trajectory
of the bullet that ripped into the young paratroopers chest, knocked him
on his backside thus saving him the added indignity of laying face down
in the mud of the monsoon drenched jungle floor. With life rapidly
escaping his body through the gaping
wound, Johnny dreams of being with Mai, a beautiful Eurasian girl he’d
only recently met and fell in love with on an in-country R&R at Vung Tau.
To be back in the “world,” to play his guitar and to live out his life
with Mai consumed his every thought.
Shortly after returning to his combat unit, Johnny Richards, a cocky
Irish, blue-eyed blues guitarist from the streets of Chicago, is gravely
wounded on a combat air-assault into an enemy stronghold, after taking a
bullet for a buddy. Are Johnny and Mai allowed to live out their dreams?
Does the bullet that cut him down cut short his young adventurous life
and their dreams? In 1983, at The Vietnam Memorial, better known as “The
Wall,” Johnny’s hopes, dreams and survival come face to face with the
emotional but spiritual realization that is his.
The Wall Of Broken Dreams is an adventure for sure, as any Vietnam War
story should be. More than that though, it is also an inspirational
story of the hopes and dreams of a young man serving his country with an
elite army combat platoon in Vietnam.
The story appeals not only to the military adventure reader but also to
the reader seeking an inspirational message. The Wall Of Broken Dreams
is an adventure with an emotional punch.
REVIEW:
“Duke Barrett takes the sacred elements of the “Nam
Experience” and weaves them into a synthesis that is the true,
fundamental foundation of any authentic story about the war in
Vietnam, be it a memoir or a work of fiction, and makes it a
meaningful background to his novel.
“This story is an adventure but be prepared for an emotional
and inspirational journey, as well. But then, when you wake up,
maybe all that you just read was just a dream!” -- W. H. “Bill”
McDonald Jr., Past President and founder of The Military Writers Society
of America (MWSA)
So often we think about war in abstract terms but
Vietnam vet, Duke Barrett, has made the traumatic
and long-lasting implications of battle spring to life
in this poignant story about the courage, loyalty,
patriotism and conflict of a young soldier. We root
for him to realize his dreams, knowing fully well
that the deck is stacked against him. -- Sigrid Macdonald, editor and
author of D'Amour
Road
"They
say that when death is near, one's life flashes before there eyes. "The
Wall Of Broken Dreams" is a story of life, and trying to survive in the
Vietnam War. Johnny Richards took a bullet for one of his companions and
nearly died. He somehow survives and realizes what's important, life and
his recently found love that he found on his tour of duty, Mai. A story
that will inspire Vietnam vets and civilian alike, "The Wall Of broken
Dreams" is highly recommended to those seeking a good historical fiction
story." ~ Midwest Book Review
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