Book description
The mission is Vietnam in microcosm: a quest to find and destroy a
secret cache of enemy weapons. Leading this fateful journey is Captain
MacHugh Clare, a draftee who has become the consummate soldier.
Unconcerned with death, each morning he shifts immediately from
unconsciousness to action. His reward at the end of the mission is the
possibility of seeing his wife.
Beside Mac is his opposite. Chaplain Paul Adrano, who knows only
doubt and disillusion. He has come to Vietnam to kill his fear, to
find his faith again on the field of battle, and he will soon know the
forbidden power of violence and the pull of sexual temptation.
Meanwhile, in America, Mac's Sarah wife fights her own battle -
against a feeling of uselessness. Struggling with notions of a woman's
proper role, Sarah begins to see possibilities beyond merely waiting
for the man she loves.
The Fearless Man is an epic novel of all the wars we wage to
occupy ground, forge a future, and save our souls.
Donald Pfarrer was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V and the
Purple Heart for service in the Vietnam war. On returning from Vietnam,
Pfarrer covered the antiwar movement for the
Milwaukee Journal
. He later became the journal's senior political reporter. He is the
author of
Cold River, Neverlight,
and
Temple
and
Shipman
. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
