Step inside the tortured mind and experience the pain of a severely abused child who rises above his personal Hell, to become a lethal, but conflicted assassin for the United States Army during the war in Vietnam. Damien Rising is a challenging and descriptive narrative of the soul searing desolation of armed conflict and the lasting effects of abuse on the young Damien at the hands of an alcoholic father and suicidal mother in a poverty afflicted family. He is the perfect killer, filled with rage, silent, emotionless in his craft; the VC have a name for him: Con Ma, The Ghost. This devastating novel depicts horrific action, intense drama, near death and a staggering first love, all during the crazed chaos of war.
