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"A stunning narrative talent. One of the best novels of the year." --The New York Times Book Review"James Crumley is the James Jones of Vietnam." --Chicago Sun-Times"A brawling, romantic novel about the hell of war, the value of friendship, the difficulties of loving and how to be a man despite the price of it all." --The Washington Post "A compelling study of the gratuitous violence in men carefully molded, without a slack line, a fuzzy character or blurred incident." --The New York Times 

. He died in Missoula in 2008. James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. His works include a novel of Vietnam, One to Count Cadence, and seven detective novels: The Wrong Case, The Last Good Kiss, Dancing Bear, The Mexican Tree Duck,

Nam vet said Good story but. Good story but writing style of author is verbose, and skips all over the place. "Three Stars" according to LisbonkidThree Stars Great for former ditty boppers, but with some diversions.. Three Stars Great for former ditty boppers, but with some diversions.. . Great for former ditty boppers, but with some diversions.. Timothy J. Bazzett said Terrific book and best ASA novel ever written, period. This book has been in print almost continuously for nearly forty years now. I'm not surprised. I first "discovered" OtCC around 1971 and it was like reading about my own first hitch in the Army Security Agency and all the crazy guys I served with. Except this is fiction, and there are some memorable and absolutely unforgettable characters here, in the protagonist, Slag Krummel, and his best-friend-sometime-nemesis, Joe Morning. About a platoon of hard-drinking and fornicating ditty-boppers, TA's and DF

Sergeant Jacob "Slag" Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by breeding, assumes command of the 721st Communication Security Deteachment, an unsoldierly crew of bored, rebellious, whoring, foul-mouthed, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities reminiscent of those in Catch-22 only to be shipped clandestinely to Vietnam, Krummel's band confront their worst fears while finally losing faith in America and its myths.Powerful, scathingly funny, and eloquent, One to Count Cadence is a triumphant novel about manhood, anger, war, and lies.. The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines

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