This is a fascinating, and recommended, novel set in Saigon in the fall of 1963. The lady of the title is the nickname of a VC sniper who kills American officers with one shot from the back of a Vespa from a pretty good distance. She is talented and lethal and our two Yank MPs are on her trail after her third kill. The only clue they're able to uncover is that she is after either an American silver fox or America's silver fox. Could be Lodge? Could be Diem? They soon find out that victim #3 was about to file a report exposing the obscenely corrupt practices of the Diem's, which the newly-appointed Lodge was trying to stop. They finally catch up to her on the night in November when the coup against the Diems succeeds. The author was a Vietnam vet and a fine writer with great insight into the Saigon of that pivotal year.
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