Rough Cut From A Bygone War

About the Book

Sam Sloane is an over-the-hill foreign correspondent still plagued by painful memories of his reporting days in Vietnam. He has refused to adapt to the cheapening of TV news and is called home to be fired. Back in the mahogany foxholes of New York, he finds himself confronting not only today’s corporate America, but the demons of his own past. A wounded cameraman helps him to deal with the nightmares and face the future. It’s a story of the intense friendship of comrades who live together and come close to dying together. It is also a poignant tale of Americans and Vietnamese, frightened men and lonely women, and of one little girl who is the symbol of wartime Vietnam. There is tragedy and profanity and dark humor but this story tells of more than man’s inhumanity to man. It speaks of man’s humanity to man.

About the Author

As a CBS News foreign correspondent, Bert Quint brought stories of war and the people caught up in them into the living rooms of America for three decades. Now he is turning the events of history into tales of individuals––on both sides of the camera––who lived through those turbulent times and are living now through what he considers a sad revolution in broadcast journalism. Quint lives in Rhode Island with his wife, Diane. They have two daughters.