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When the war ends, how do you leave your best friend behind?
St. Martin's Press
February 2011
On Sale: February 15, 2011
Featuring: Fletcher Carson; Jack
304 pages
ISBN: 0312621728
EAN: 9780312621728
Hardcover
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When the war ends, how do you leave your best friend
behind? After losing his young family in a tragic accident,
Fletcher Carson joins the flagging war effort in Vietnam.
Deeply depressed, he plans to die in the war. But during
one of his early missions, Fletcher rescues a critically
wounded yellow Lab whom he nurses back to health and names
Jack. As Fletcher and Jack patrol and survive the forests
of Vietnam, Fletcher slowly regains the will to live. At the end of the war, the U.S. Government announces that
due to the cost of withdrawal, all U.S. dogs serving in
the war have been declared 'surplus military equipment'
and will not be transported home. For the hundreds of dog
handlers throughout Vietnam, whose dogs had saved
countless lives, the news is greeted with shock and
disbelief. For Fletcher, he knows that if he abandons
Jack, then he too will be lost. Ordered to leave Jack
behind, he refuses - and so begins their journey. Based on the actual existence and abandonment of canine
units in Vietnam, Gareth Crocker's Finding Jack is a novel
of friendship and love under desperate circumstances that
will grab your heart and won't let go.
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