Robert A. Anderson s first Vietnam
War novel, Cooks and Bakers, was
described as "a tough-minded report from
hell." With the publication of Service for
the Dead, Anderson, a former Marine lieu-
tenant who served at Hue during the Tet
Offensive, demonstrates once again that
he is a compelling narrator of men at war.
On his way home from Vietnam after
having been wounded, and newly immersed
in a civilian reality that seems trivial, marine
Pfc. Mike Allison tries to make sense of
his Vietnam nightmare. In the back seat of
his parents car he drifts in and out of
memories of the war: the terror of random
death; endless patrols; the booby-trapped
landscape; seemingly friendly Vietnamese
who harbor Viet Cong; memories...dreams
...nightmares.
Mike and the men in his platoon make
dream and reality interchangeable as the
only way to make sense of the senseless,
cryptic war. In a desperate attempt to con-
trol what is beyond their control, they
create alternate realities of everything
around them. Their company headquarters
becomes the Fort, the no-man s land they
patrol--and die in--Frontierland, their
two sharp-shooting adversaries Zorro and
the Cisco Kid--and the war itself a movie
in which they are actors.
But Mike and his platoon mates also
create alternate realities of themselves.
Longo, their fire team leader, gives each of
them a nickname that mirrors in a cockeyed
way their true selves: Pogo, the court jester,
speaks wisdom foolishly; Candid Camera,
the voyeur, delights in photographing every-
thing, including the dead; the Professor,
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