Saigon is the sixth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services.
Publishing history
The book was first published in December 1964 (Number A122F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman. Copyright was registered in the US.
Tagline
"Little Paris" where love-talk is wire-tapped and each caress can lead to sudden mayhem.
Plot summary
The story is set in August–September 1964. Claire La Farge, widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam. One night she receives a coded message in the form of a knotted belt (quipu) from a former associate of her husband. She sends her trusted servant, Saito, to Saigon to place an advert in the personal column of the Times of Vietnam hoping to contact former colleagues of her husband who can decode the message. Raoul Dupre, a former French intelligence officer and businessman in Saigon, reads the ad and makes contact. Agent Nick Carter, in Saigon posing as a WHO medical observer, answers the ad on a hunch and learns of Dupre's involvement. Dupre's daughter, Antoinette (Toni), has become a heroin addict under the influence of Lin Tong – a Chinese communist spy interested in finding out the truth about her father.
Saigon is a novel by Anthony Grey. Saigon follows the lives of three families, one American, one French, and the other Vietnamese, from the French colonial era in the early 1920s until the last helicopter left Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.
The novel was published in 1982 by Weidenfield & Nicholson in London and Little, Brown in Boston.
Saigon was born in Spring Valley, New York. In the late 1990s, he was sentenced to jail time at Napanoch’s Eastern Correctional Facility, serving a sentence for first-degree assault after shooting at someone in a bar. One day while in the recreation yard, Brian met a fellow inmate named Hakim, who rapped and had a reputation for incorporating positive messages, and heavy use of prestigious vocabulary in his rhymes. Carenard would later state that battle rapping with Hakim would help instigate his personal rehabilitation, as he set a course for redemption through hip hop music. While serving time, Brian named himself "Saigon" after reading Wallace Terry’s book about the Vietnam War. This book helped realign the content and diction in Saigon's raps, as well as the advice of a prison lifer: "There’s no right way to do wrong." Saigon was eventually released from prison in 2000, and immediately recorded mixtapes, with the goal of obtaining a record contract as a means to release a debut album, which he wanted to be titled "The Greatest Story Never Told".
Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification and subterfuge is the act of propagating beliefs in things that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith.
Deception is a major relational transgression that often leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust between relational partners. Deception violates relational rules and is considered to be a negative violation of expectations. Most people expect friends, relational partners, and even strangers to be truthful most of the time. If people expected most conversations to be untruthful, talking and communicating with others would require distraction and misdirection to acquire reliable information. A significant amount of deception occurs between romantic and relational partners.
Until 2007, in England and Wales, the main deception offences were defined in the Theft Act 1968 and the Theft Act 1978. The basic pattern of deception offences was established in the Theft Act 1968, and then amended in the Theft Act 1978 and the Theft (Amendment) Act 1996 which addressed some of the problems that had arisen in the enforcement of the law.
The novel marks the first time Roth uses his own name as the name of the protagonist within a fictional work; he had previously used himself as a main character in a work of non-fiction - The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography, and would do so again in the memoir Patrimony. "Roth" would also be narrator of the novels Operation Shylock and The Plot Against America.
Summary
At the center of the book are conversations between a married American named Philip, living in London, and a married Englishwoman—trapped with a small child in a loveless upper-middle-class household. The lives of both characters are gradually revealed as they talk before and after making love.
Reception
Writing in the New York Times Book Review, the writer and critic Fay Weldon called the novel, "extraordinary, elegant, disturbing," adding that she had found it, "exhilarating." She continues:
"Mr. Roth throws down a gauntlet. He is very brave; this literary navel-gazing is a risky occupation. Is this novel a portrait of Mr. Roth or non-Roth in hateful literary London, having it off with the wives of his friends? What conceit, to think we're interested. Yet he gets away with it even as he angers us. How skillful this lover, he who started out as the grubby, impetuous Portnoy, has become. How delicately within this 'text without exposition et cetera' he delineates lines of plot, character, event, desire. How he seduces the reluctant, soothes the aggravated."
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Ho Chi Minh - The Leader of North Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh, father of independent Vietnam, was a man of contrasts. Standing at just four foot, eleven inches and weighing less than a hundred pounds, he appeared to pose no threat to anyone. Yet, through the force of his personality and the steely determination of his will he defeated two of the world’s mightiest nations. He portrayed himself as a simple man of the people yet he ruled over a repressive regime that committed terrible atrocities. While many viewed him as the bringer of light to a repressed people, to others he was simply a Communist spy planted by the Soviets. In today’s Biographics, we discover the truth about the real Ho Chi Minh.
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Cu chi Tunnels War And Booby Traps, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
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Have a grim peek into the underground life of Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam-American war back in 1948. Today, the Chu Chi Tunnels are part of a massive war museum located 70km from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Vietcong soldiers are masters of deception and their hit and run techniques using the tunnel served invaluable in their resistance to the US forces. Lurking in the tunnels set numerous booby traps for US and South Vietnamese soldiers.
There, I was introduced to a variety of booby traps created by the Vietcong. The traps are very innovative in design, these simple working mechanism are designed to do one thing very well- to kill. Ensnaring, immobilizing and speari...
published: 10 Jun 2018
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Ho Chi Minh, father of independent Vietnam, was a man of contrasts. Standing at just four foot, eleven inches and weighing less than a hundred pounds, he appeared to pose no threat to anyone. Yet, through the force of his personality and the steely determination of his will he defeated two of the world’s mightiest nations. He portrayed himself as a simple man of the people yet he ruled over a repressive regime that committed terrible atrocities. While many viewed him as the bringer of light to a repressed people, to others he was simply a Communist spy planted by the Soviets. In today’s Biographics, we discover the truth about the real Ho Chi Minh.
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Ho Chi Minh, father of independent Vietnam, was a man of contrasts. Standing at just four foot, eleven inches and weighing less than a hundred pounds, he appeared to pose no threat to anyone. Yet, through the force of his personality and the steely determination of his will he defeated two of the world’s mightiest nations. He portrayed himself as a simple man of the people yet he ruled over a repressive regime that committed terrible atrocities. While many viewed him as the bringer of light to a repressed people, to others he was simply a Communist spy planted by the Soviets. In today’s Biographics, we discover the truth about the real Ho Chi Minh.
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Credits:
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Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris
Business inquiries to [email protected]
Other Biographics Videos:
Aleister Crowley - The Great Beast 666
https://youtu.be/9zNTpey21Y0
Charlie Chaplin - The Tragic Life of the Little Tramp
https://youtu.be/cbzyHaWlcHI
Source/Further reading:
Pierre Brocheux: Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
William J. Duiker: Ho Chi Minh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvX_s732ZBM&t=308s
Part 5: America's Enemy (1954-1967) The Vietnam War as seen from different perspectives by Vietcong guerrillas and sympathizers, by North Vietnamese .
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Part 5: America's Enemy (1954-1967) The Vietnam War as seen from different perspectives by Vietcong guerrillas and sympathizers, by North Vietnamese .
Book Discussion on Vietnam: A History Mr. Karnow talked about his book, Vietnam: A .
Vietnam: A Television History (1983) is a 13-part American documentary television mini-series about the Vietnam War (1955-1975) from the perspective of the .
If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam .
Part 5: America's Enemy (1954-1967) The Vietnam War as seen from different perspectives by Vietcong guerrillas and sympathizers, by North Vietnamese .
Book Discussion on Vietnam: A History Mr. Karnow talked about his book, Vietnam: A .
Vietnam: A Television History (1983) is a 13-part American documentary television mini-series about the Vietnam War (1955-1975) from the perspective of the .
If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam .
Read more on my trip article on shaunchg.com: http://www.shaunchng.com/2017/12/04/cu-chi-tunnels-ho-chi-minh-vietnam
Have a grim peek into the underground life...
Read more on my trip article on shaunchg.com: http://www.shaunchng.com/2017/12/04/cu-chi-tunnels-ho-chi-minh-vietnam
Have a grim peek into the underground life of Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam-American war back in 1948. Today, the Chu Chi Tunnels are part of a massive war museum located 70km from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Vietcong soldiers are masters of deception and their hit and run techniques using the tunnel served invaluable in their resistance to the US forces. Lurking in the tunnels set numerous booby traps for US and South Vietnamese soldiers.
There, I was introduced to a variety of booby traps created by the Vietcong. The traps are very innovative in design, these simple working mechanism are designed to do one thing very well- to kill. Ensnaring, immobilizing and spearing unsuspecting soldiers who thread into their entrances. All the traps do not require power and uses gravity to drive and activate them.
Read more on my trip article on shaunchg.com: http://www.shaunchng.com/2017/12/04/cu-chi-tunnels-ho-chi-minh-vietnam
Have a grim peek into the underground life of Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam-American war back in 1948. Today, the Chu Chi Tunnels are part of a massive war museum located 70km from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Vietcong soldiers are masters of deception and their hit and run techniques using the tunnel served invaluable in their resistance to the US forces. Lurking in the tunnels set numerous booby traps for US and South Vietnamese soldiers.
There, I was introduced to a variety of booby traps created by the Vietcong. The traps are very innovative in design, these simple working mechanism are designed to do one thing very well- to kill. Ensnaring, immobilizing and spearing unsuspecting soldiers who thread into their entrances. All the traps do not require power and uses gravity to drive and activate them.
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Ho Chi Minh, father of independent Vietnam, was a man of contrasts. Standing at just four foot, eleven inches and weighing less than a hundred pounds, he appeared to pose no threat to anyone. Yet, through the force of his personality and the steely determination of his will he defeated two of the world’s mightiest nations. He portrayed himself as a simple man of the people yet he ruled over a repressive regime that committed terrible atrocities. While many viewed him as the bringer of light to a repressed people, to others he was simply a Communist spy planted by the Soviets. In today’s Biographics, we discover the truth about the real Ho Chi Minh.
→Subscribe for new videos four times per week.
https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1
Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org
Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Steve Theunissen
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris
Business inquiries to [email protected]
Other Biographics Videos:
Aleister Crowley - The Great Beast 666
https://youtu.be/9zNTpey21Y0
Charlie Chaplin - The Tragic Life of the Little Tramp
https://youtu.be/cbzyHaWlcHI
Source/Further reading:
Pierre Brocheux: Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
William J. Duiker: Ho Chi Minh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvX_s732ZBM&t=308s
Part 5: America's Enemy (1954-1967) The Vietnam War as seen from different perspectives by Vietcong guerrillas and sympathizers, by North Vietnamese .
Book Discussion on Vietnam: A History Mr. Karnow talked about his book, Vietnam: A .
Vietnam: A Television History (1983) is a 13-part American documentary television mini-series about the Vietnam War (1955-1975) from the perspective of the .
If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam .
Read more on my trip article on shaunchg.com: http://www.shaunchng.com/2017/12/04/cu-chi-tunnels-ho-chi-minh-vietnam
Have a grim peek into the underground life of Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam-American war back in 1948. Today, the Chu Chi Tunnels are part of a massive war museum located 70km from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Vietcong soldiers are masters of deception and their hit and run techniques using the tunnel served invaluable in their resistance to the US forces. Lurking in the tunnels set numerous booby traps for US and South Vietnamese soldiers.
There, I was introduced to a variety of booby traps created by the Vietcong. The traps are very innovative in design, these simple working mechanism are designed to do one thing very well- to kill. Ensnaring, immobilizing and spearing unsuspecting soldiers who thread into their entrances. All the traps do not require power and uses gravity to drive and activate them.
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Saigon is the sixth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services.
Publishing history
The book was first published in December 1964 (Number A122F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman. Copyright was registered in the US.
Tagline
"Little Paris" where love-talk is wire-tapped and each caress can lead to sudden mayhem.
Plot summary
The story is set in August–September 1964. Claire La Farge, widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam. One night she receives a coded message in the form of a knotted belt (quipu) from a former associate of her husband. She sends her trusted servant, Saito, to Saigon to place an advert in the personal column of the Times of Vietnam hoping to contact former colleagues of her husband who can decode the message. Raoul Dupre, a former French intelligence officer and businessman in Saigon, reads the ad and makes contact. Agent Nick Carter, in Saigon posing as a WHO medical observer, answers the ad on a hunch and learns of Dupre's involvement. Dupre's daughter, Antoinette (Toni), has become a heroin addict under the influence of Lin Tong – a Chinese communist spy interested in finding out the truth about her father.
1. Revised securities law passed ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... Trương Mỹ Lan, Chairwoman of Vạn Thịnh Phát Group, embezzled over VNĐ677 trillion from SaigonCommercialJoint StockBank. She manipulated SCB for financial gain, using deceptive tactics to withdraw funds.
Kino Lorber ... 19, Inside the YellowCocoonShell is, from a narrative standpoint, deceptively simple. Laconically coasting by in Saigon, twentysomething bachelor Thien (Le Phong Vu) is called to help deal with a family emergency ... ....
MEMORANDUM FOR ... FROM ... REF ... All being fair in love and war, the generals in Saigon were determined to offer a rosy picture. In an August 20, 1967 cable from Saigon, Westmoreland’s deputy, Gen.Creighton Abrams, explained the rationale for their deception.
> ...MEMORANDUM FOR ... All being fair in love and war, the generals in Saigon were determined to offer a rosy picture. In an August 20, 1967 cable from Saigon, Westmoreland’s deputy, Gen.Creighton Abrams, explained the rationale for their deception ... .