River of Nine Dragons

About the Book

The River of Nine Dragons (Song Cuu Long) is the name given to the nine "tails" or distributaries of the Mekong River that flow through the thick, verdant, watery world of the Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam and Cambodia. The first of these to break away from the Mekong is the Bassac, starting in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and making up one of the star of four converging waterways upon which Phnom Penh sits.

Jack Logan, a naïve country boy from North Carolina, joins the Army with his cousin Joseph and becomes a U.S. Army Ranger. The Vietnam War is about to change his life forever. Like so many warriors of the past, he has learned to love the effects of war, the adrenaline rush, and the heat of battle. He rediscovered a love that he thought he lost along the way, while discovering a new love in the process. Now he's torn between the love of war and the love for two women. Who will he choose, the War, Rana or Maya?

About the Author

.John Richardson was born in Buxton Hospital in Newport News Virginia in1944. After his father’s death at age forty in 1958. His mother Grace took John to North Carolina at the tender age of thirteen. There he lived and work the farm with his grandparents, John and Lesley Fox. At age eighteen he and his cousin Joesph joined the US Army 10/31/62. John later married his first wife while living in North Carolina close to where he grew up in the Great Smokes Mountains. After twelve years of marriage and two children later, he divorced Kay and later moved to Michigan where he now resides. He was married again to his beloved wife, Lesley, gaining two children in the process, Carrie and Brett bringing the total to three sons and one daughter. His beloved Lesley, after a twenty-six year marriage, passed away of brain cancer on 12/21/2007. John himself suffers from CIDP...