Those with mixed feelings about America’s involvement in the Viet Nam war will come away with a new sense of awareness after reading HONOR DUE, and a new sense of respect for the warriors involved. Better still, they’ll meet a compelling author who succinctly tells a believably shocking tale with poignancy, humor, a sweet but not sappy touch of romance, and a down to earth value system which includes the love of privacy and the right to keep and bear arms.

As the Major puts it, “I may not have a high school diploma, but I’ve earned several doctorates in the killing arts. I prefer to be the predator than the prey.”

The Major’s service record is the foundation for HONOR DUE and sets the stage for D.H. BROWN’s forthcoming books in The Citizen Warrior Series. In this series opener, the Major, a retired Special Forces Operative with strong emotional ties to the interpreter he’d fought alongside in battle, as well as to Y’ang’s family, learns that he’s now being hunted for extinction by a Special Ops team. When Y’ang’s family is also targeted for assassination, the Major needs to learn who’s behind this and why. He also needs to avenge the harm done to this family he helped bring to America and in particular, to Y’Ang, his War Brother.

“You didn’t send brother to kill brother unless you were seriously off the reservation and a really sick puppy,” the Major muses as he steps up his surveillance system, gathers his arsenal about him (going unarmed is like forgetting to put on his pants,) and rallies his troop–savvy neighbor with similar past who don’t ask questions.

The setting for HONOR DUE is a wooded piece of paradise in the northernmost part of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where one of the Major’s greatest pleasures is taking a morning whiz off his front porch, buck ass naked, in a heavy rain. After 25 years in the killing fields, he wants to spend his time now living the simple life with his faithful companion “Black Dog” (whom he rescued from being chained up, leaving its abuser in similar fashion,) and tooling the woods in his old beater truck which, like him, also has a bite that’s worse than its bark. Mostly rust, it’s more than alive under the hood, but also like the Major, “our clothes don’t match and grooming is not something we spend a lot of time on.”

This book isn’t my usual cup of tea for I loathe war and its resultant fall-out. But I appreciate differing view points and especially admire a master storyteller. D.H. BROWN is indeed that and I eagerly await “HONOR DEFENDED.” One simple aside: I wish I’d first read the glossary at the book’s end, to more fully understand names and places the author mentions.

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