Tree of smoke
/ Denis Johnson
- 1st ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2007
- 614 p. ; 24 cm.
This is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA - engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong - and the disasters that befall him. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, this is a story like nothing in our literature.