[The Vietnam War Collection 04] • Poisoned Hearts

*First love, the Vietnam war and a boy is lost. * Sandi loved her Johnny when he was eighteen and of conscript age and she, what?, sixteen, and he went away to war in Vietnam. Then came the knock on her door and the boy, love and her future are swept away by his death in combat. Years after the war, she still feels she is living the wrong life because he is not with her. Now, amid stunning rumors of rape in the war zone and of Johnny's bizarre murder, she discovers Eliot Cobb, the army officer assigned to sabotage the original investigation into Johnny's death. He is a man strangely desperate to uncover the bitter truth. But a truth neither of them expects nor wants to hear. A truth that reveals what the Vietnam war made of Johnny and his Sandi and of bystanders to their disaster like Eliot Cobb, and what that war continues to make of its survivors long after.