The Phantom Blooper
This is a REPRINT of an exceedingly difficult book to find.
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Note: This book is a reproduction of the historical text for academic, historical, or collector purposes.
1990 edition printed in 2026.
6" x 9" / 243 pages
Book description
The Phantom Blooper is a more powerful, more personal story than The Short-Timers, in its description of life among the Viet Cong and how that affects Private Joker. If The Short-Timers details the making of an American solider, this book shows the unmaking.
In Hasford's original draft, Joker's conversion was so complete that he became an active VC, going out and killing his fellow Marines. As the inside cover says, "Here is another major novel of the Viet Nam experience from one of its most startlingly able chroniclers...
Joker's personal odyssey exposes a searingly honest, tragic, and brutal truth about the war that damned a generation and the betrayal that scarred us all."
This was supposed to be the second volume of Gus's Viet Nam trilogy, but the final novel was never finished.
