num_pages: 342
description: In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action—and profit—by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously high.
language: English
title: Dog Soldiers
titlecomplete: Dog Soldiers
genres: Literature, Crime, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Thriller, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 6899
places: San Francisco, California, Saigon
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Mariner Books