The Second Tour, 2nd Edition;

This is the 2nd Edition of The Second Tour - Revised and updated, 2011.


The Second Tour is a literary novel written in the Modernist tradition that explores the full range of the human condition, everything from the ultimate altruism (guys charging machine gun nests to save their buddies) to the ultimate evil (guys killing innocents because they enjoy it). It's a story about a two- or three-year-old Vietnamese girl whose murder haunts the narrator. And it's a story about that narrator, a low-level Marine, about his descent into spiritual darkness and his life-long struggle to regain some semblance of a meaningful life.