Michael Herr: 4 books

Fresh in his boots and three days in-country, Michael Herr is in a Chinook when a young soldier across from him is gunned. “It took me a month to lose that feeling of being a spectator to something that was part game, part show.”   Written in unforgettable and unflinching detail, Herr captures...

"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor...

For generations on the Big Island of Hawaii, the women of the Pono family have guarded the secret hiding place of the bones of Queen Ka'ahumanu, King Kamehameha's favorite wife and powerful ruler herself. Now as Haunani, matriarch of the family, feels old age approaching, she must turn over her responsibilities, and the family lands, to one of her four daughters. But which one?

In this sixth book of the Kohala Coast Mystery series, a mother from Kauai grieves for the death of her daughter and the theft of her treasured Elvis remembrance. She follows the killer's trail to the Big Island, there to bring the women of the Pono family into her search. But the women of the...