Darrell S. Mudd’s Cold War Burning (PublishAmerica, 462 pp., $29.99) is billed as fiction but contains a lot of photos, which makes it look more like a memoir. It includes a photo of the 16th green of the Dalat Palace Golf Course, which I enjoyed looking at, but could make no sense of.
I had trouble making heads or tails of this “adventure fiction.” The back cover states that Mudd served on military assignments in Germany and Vietnam, and that this is his first novel.
—David Willson