Hunton Downs (1918-2010) was a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and the author of several novels, but was perhaps best known for his book The Glenn Miller Conspiracy, and his controversial belief that the bandleader wasn’t killed in a plane crash over the English channel, but rather during a secret espionage mission in Europe.
SOUTH SEAS NOIR: FOUR FULL NOVELS brings together four hard-edged classics set across the Pacific and Asia, where desire, ambition, and violence collide in places far from home and beyond the reach of easy justice.
Soldier-of-fortune Daniel King, also a former male escort, is hired as a bodguard in the cut-throat world of Vietnam in 1954. To survive, King must outwit Mossard, the rich plantation owner who has hired him... and who constantly plays both sides of every conflict. But so do Mossard's wife Charlotte and his beautiful mistress Thi-Tuyet, who both lure King into their beds. King must walk on the razor's edge of death and betrayal in a world of non-stop greed and sudden violence...or die.