The Ghost of Khe Sanh Paperback

Two young brothers witness the brutal assault of their mother. She retaliates and their father lies dead in a pool of blood. For the boys, years of psychiatric treatment follows. The oldest becomes the leader of a violent gang. When he is forced to flee the city, other gangs hunt the youngest. He is caught and savagely beaten. In the hospital he has only one visitor, his teacher, a Catholic nun. He is a solitary boy, who spends his lunch hours sitting against the church wall in the Catholic schoolyard listening to strange voices that leak through the bricks. He realizes he must never be caught again. He learns how to hide, how not to be seen and how to disappear. He also learns to answer the voices. Two years later, he learns how to kill. The judge and the prosecutor reach a deal and the authorities escort the eighteen year old to the Marine Base in Georgia. He is deployed to Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh as a sniper. The young marine has a special talent which no one can comprehend. When he doesn't wish to be seen, he isn't. The forest has changed, death stalks the hills and the Viet Cong are terrified. A legendary ghost has returned from the past to kill the soldiers from the north. Years later a mob killing leaves one witness, a Catholic nun. She is marked for death. The police and the FBI try to protect her but a maniac follows. The chase leads from Detroit to the Black Hills. The arresting sergeant, of a young boy years ago, asks for help from the only man who can save the nun because he knows this isn't any nun. This nun was the only friend of the Ghost of Khe Sanh.