First Blood (Rambo: First Blood Series Book 1)

by David Morrell

It occurred to me that, if I’d turned off the sound, if I hadn’t heard each story’s reporter explain what I was watching, I might have thought that both film clips were two aspects of one horror.

write a novel in which the Vietnam War literally came home to America.

But in my novel the casualties are virtually uncountable. My intent was to transpose the Vietnam War to America. In contrast, the film’s intent was to make the audience cheer for the underdog.