9 January 2024 (Friday)
Saigon After Dark
Debauchery, Espionage and Sexual Antics
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - This is basically a critique of the 50th Anniversary of Saigon After Dark. Perhaps the most seedy nonfiction narrative of depravity, erotica and spies set during the Vietnam War ever written.
It might be the most sick book, fiction or non, ever written on the Vietnam War, period.
There are, of course, the archetypical prostitutes that double as Viet Cong spies, nude girl wrestling, and femme fatales. But this is book is beyond archetypes…
It reads like a cross between Cormac McCarthy and Chuck Palahniuk, except it is supposedly true. If any of it is factual, the book is a testament to absolute cringe and outdoes anything a Vietnam War novel could muster in creativity, imagination and comfort level.
The author describes necrophiliac appetites by a customer that includes the use of a coffin, gambling dens where the winner gets the loser’s daughter, the “doll house” staffed by children of both sexes.
There are some mysteries in the book as well.
Despite searching the Internet and old history books on the war, there is no clarity on the book’s descriptions of the Yellow Pang Society, the Nine Commandments, and the Rotating Wheel of Shame.
Despite the rather tame cover art for the book, it is ruthless.
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