BoomerCafe features "Escape from Saigon"

BoomerCafe just published an excerpt from "Escape from Saigon - a Novel" by Michael Morris and Dick Pirozzolo.

The novel takes place during the last 30 days of a war that divided a nation and defined a generation. Of the many things that shaped our baby boomer generation, the war in Vietnam is principal. Which makes it worth some reflection, which is what Dick Pirozzolo of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Michael Morris of Savannah, Georgia, have done in the new novel they have co-authored.

It is “Escape from Saigon,” the story of April, 1975, the final month of the war. They tell their story through the lives of those caught in the besieged city.

In this BoomerCafe excerpt we meet Lisette Vo an American television network’s first Vietnamese-American correspondent. Lisette has entered the war correspondents' unofficial headquarters—L'Petit Bistrot—after covering an Operation Babylift plane crash that killed 78 orphans when she meets Sam Esposito, the hard-hitting reporter from The Washington Legend.

“You look like crap,” Sam exclaimed the minute he turned toward Lisette, who had taken the bar stool next to him...Continue Reading