Author: charleswsasser

When LCDR Pete Brauer, former U.S. Navy SEAL (retired), dies in Florida, he dies clutching in his hands the portrait of a beautiful French-Vietnamese girl that has hung on his wall for more than twenty years. “I will never forgive myself, Pollack,” Brauer told his neighbor and friend, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jack Kazmarek (retired). “I don’t think God will either.” “We’ve all done things,” … things,” Kazmarek replied. “Especially in Vietnam.” “We haven’t all done what I done.” After Pete’s death, Kazmarek sets out on a quest to discover the relationship between Pete and the Eurasian girl in the…