The Ambassador [antikvár]

THE AMBASSADOR is Maxwell Gordon Amberley, a troubled man, left rootless with the death of his wife, trying to find renewed meaning in his life. Suddenly, in the midst of his personal turmoil, he is assigned to South Vietnam and brought swiftly into the deceptive calm of the eye of the hurricane... Here in this extraordinary növel are sharply-drawn portraits of men and women-Asians, Americans, Europeans-at the center and on the fringes of policy-making in a dangerous war-a vast panorama brought into focus through the vision of one passionate and dedicated man ... The Ambassador. "WEST IS A MASTER NOVELIST." -San Francisco News Call-Bulletin "ELLUMINATING."-Toledo Blade "ABSORBING."-Wall Street Journal