Message from Nam

Written by Danielle Steel

Narrated by Richard Thomas

As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience  Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to  college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.

For the soldiers she  knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their  lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men  in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not  escape or deny. Peter  Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit  who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph  Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in  Saigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the  war inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi  tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it  seemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant Tony  Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of  New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon.

For seven years  Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper  column from the front before finally returning to the  States and then attending the Paris peace talks.  But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam,  life would never be the same again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
• Release date: Jul 5, 2000
• ISBN: 9780553752519

Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with nearly a billion copies of her novels sold. Her recent many international bestsellers include Against All Odds, The Duchess and The Right Time. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood. Danielle divides her time between Paris and her home in northern California.

Reviews for Message from Nam

[Lizamhm · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

As always, Danielle Steel perfectly blends history with fiction. One can learn about the useless Vietnam War while enduring the romantic misfortunes of the protagonist. I insist that the richness of reading is to expand our general culture, and with each book by Steel, this is possible. (Translated from Spanish)

[Miri L. · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Danielle Steel demonstrates in this novel that she can write the harsh reality with absolute ease. In most of her novels, escapism from reality where her protagonists are beautiful, successful, and triumphant, Steel becomes a queen of romantic novels. However, in this novel, set in Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., the protagonist, Paxton, after several personal tragedies, decides not to complete her journalism studies and travel to Vietnam as a correspondent. There she will face the horrors of war and write her column. The author does not hold back on the gruesome details of this absurd war. The novel spans from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, through that of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, with a country marked by these tragedies and the Vietnam War. Paxton is strong, Paxton is a fighter. An unforgettable novel. (Translated from Spanish)