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Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam
is opening to the outside world. There is a smell of
fast money in the air and poverty in the streets. Business
is booming and in austere Ho Chi Minh City a new generation
of foreigners have arrived to make money and not war.
Against the backdrop of Vietnam’s economic miracle,
Comfort Zone reveals a a divided people still not reconciled
with their past and unsure of their future.
Calvino is
hired by an ex-special forces vet, whose younger brother
uncovers corruption and fraud in the emerging business
world in which his clients are dealing. But before Calvino
even leaves Bangkok, there have already been two murders,
one in Saigon and one in Bangkok.
First
edition (1995) / 2nd edition (1997) / Current edition
(2001) Heaven Lake Press, 267 pp.
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