Ghosts of Vietnam: The Mekong
Ghosts of Vietnam series
Ghosts of Vietnam: The Mekong
Status: NovelThe men step off the ship into heat, mud, watchful villages, and a war that does not greet them.
Vung Tau Port. December 1966. The men of 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment arrive in Vietnam under a heat that clings and a silence that watches.
Andrew H. Lee carries an M79 he did not ask for and a radio that never stays quiet. Across Long An Province, near Tan Tru, through paddies, bridges, villages, rain, and absence, the platoon learns that movement is not the same thing as control.
About the Novel
The Mekong continues the story begun in Ghosts of Vietnam: The Draft. The supplied author’s note identifies it as historical fiction following the same characters into Vietnam, beginning with arrival at Vung Tau Port and continuing through their first month in-country.
The novel draws its platoon structure, weather, tide schedules, tactics, and deployment frame from records and first-hand accounts, while keeping the events fictionalized and focused on memory, endurance, and men carrying more than they were taught to name.
Themes
- Arrival, disorientation, and the first month in-country.
- Platoon bonds under weather, mud, movement, and observation.
- Letters, handkerchiefs, and the small ties that keep men connected to home.
- Respectful historical weight without turning combat into spectacle.
- The silence that gathers around men before they can name what is happening.
For Readers Who Want
- Vietnam War fiction grounded in unit detail, weather, tactics, and terrain.
- A continuation of Andrew H. Lee’s story after The Draft.
- Combat-adjacent tension, moral pressure, and historical atmosphere without empty heroics.
- A novel about movement, memory, and men enduring what they cannot yet explain.