BOOT
War’s greatest challenge isn’t surviving the enemy—it’s surviving yourself.
War’s greatest challenge isn’t surviving the enemy—it’s surviving yourself. G. O. Hill, a young conservative from South Texas and a proud marine, thinks he has it all figured out—other cultures, religions, races. What it means to be a man. What it means to be himself.
But when his boots hit napalm-roasted Vietnamese soil, he realizes he knows squat. Home lies just across the ocean, but it may as well be on another planet entirely. And Johnson’s War will test his sense of identity, from his role as a marine in the Vietcong jungle to the role he’s forced to play in his own absurd existence. Control is an illusion, and fear is its illusionist.
Thrust through the war with his hard-charging rabble of raucous, scatological, racist, and sexist brothers in arms, G. O. knows he must survive psychologically if he’s to find his