Apocalypse Now prequel

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2014)

"Wilderness of Pain: The Dark Heart of Walter E. Kurtz" is s prequel story of Walter E. Kurtz and his first two tours of duty in Vietnam as part of the Gamma Program, the recruitment of Montagnard tribesmen to conduct a secret war of attrition against the North Vietnamese.
In "Wilderness of Pain", the Darwinian world of jungle warfare pulls the mind and body of Walter E. Kurtz deep inside a place void of the order and reason of Western civilization. His inability to subdue his determined enemy, and the jungle, slowly peel away Walter's long-held convictions for God and country. Freed from the ecclesial and ideological cages of conformance, Walter unwittingly falls into a wilderness of Dionysian madness where he bows to the will of the jungle, a gluttonous master that requires death to sustain its life. His mission was to kill the North Vietnamese communists, but instead Walter E. Kurtz finds himself battling both the jungle and the contradictory nature of Western civilization.
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