The title promises apricot marmalade and delivers something entirely unexpected — a richly flavored Vietnam-era satire that’s part Catch-22, part absurdist comedy, and wholly its own delicious thing. Lon Orey served in Military Intelligence in Thailand during the late 1960s, and he’s turned that experience into something that tastes exactly like the truth dressed up as fiction.
Colonel Morgan bungles his way through every assignment. Major Harris would rather polish his red Mercedes than fight communism. Trooper Cooper has convinced himself he’s contracted every disease discussed in his vicinity. Irv Bonner is terrified of snakes in a country overflowing with them.
This is the kind of book that gets better with every chapter, like a sauce that keeps reducing. Serve with something cold.
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