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Starlight: A Novel
Starlight: A Novel
Starlight: A Novel
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In the depths of Vietnam’s jungles, a radioman and a haunted sniper try to survive
Jackson has three hundred days left in Vietnam, and he plans to spend them behind a desk, working the radio for a major in a godforsaken firebase not far from the Laos border. But one day, the reality of war visits Jackson in the form of Tom Light, a sniper whose scope is said to have the power to raise the dead. Where Light goes, ambushes follow, and so he has been cursed to wander the jungle alone, his skin growing pale, his boots replaced with sandals.
Tom Light is a dangerous man to know, a spooky lost soldier who survives in spite of himself. Jackson wants to learn his secret. Hoping the master sniper can keep him safe, Jackson ventures out with Light. In the jungle they will encounter perils—some real and some hallucinatory. Can the strange sniper’s all-powerful starlight scope will them to stay alive?
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Release dateJan 28, 2014
ISBN9781480466807
Starlight: A Novel
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Scott Ely

Scott Ely (1944–2013) served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970. After the war, he received an MA from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He taught at Winthrop University in South Carolina and other schools. He wrote five novels and four collections of short stories.

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