Black Market

Survivor of Nam #3

by Donald E. Zlotnik

Book 3 of this exciting Vietnam adventure series involves the military Black Market, where everything is for sale: contraband military supplies, drugs, booze, and even women. Now the time has come for the payoffs to stop and this chapter of the Black Market to be closed down for good.

Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 1988

About the author

Donald E. Zlotnik is a former Green Beret. He saw combat action throughout Southeast Asia.

Reviews

[Pramod Nair · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this years ago. An entertaining thriller set in the jungles of Vietnam. The combat experience of the Author can be seen in the way he efficiently and realistically narrates Vietnam during the war.

He spins a tale of excitement which revolves around the black market activities that surrounded the Vietnam war.

[Paperbackbooks86 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book three of the Survivor of Nam series was probably my favorite of the three books thus far, but for whatever reason it took me a long time to get through this short book. At only 200 pages, you can power through this one pretty quickly. Unfortunately for me, it took me about a month to wrap up the book. Granted I was busy this past month, so in my spare time, I wasn't rushing to read this book.

I did rate this book 5 stars because when the action is unfolding, its hard to put down. There are three or four different storylines going on throughout the book, and they all nicely blend together. The book take a bit to get going at first. About the first 50 pages, I was starting to dread starting this book (as I have a large list of books I want to read) but shortly after, the story really starts picking up.

Obviously the black market storyline is the best storyline in the book, but ends pretty quickly, which I found disappointing, because it was really starting to pick up and I felt the story could have been stretched even further.

Overall the book was enjoyable, good action, great story telling, but for me it was just difficult to get through. I think it wasn't the book, but just a funk I was in. Five stars.