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The Butcher's Bill

by Janice Schramn

145 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1685; ISBN 1-4120-6774-x; US$13.93, C$16.02, EUR11.44, £8.01

Paddy, a USO entertainer in Vietnam, escapes flying mud bombs and staked graves to come up against a more deadly trap when an American task force rescues her.

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The Butcher's Bill is a novel set in 1968 Vietnam, during the Tet offensive. Paddy, a USO entertainer, is thrown into the reality of war when her lone escort is killed. She escapes the flying mud bombs and the pre-made staked graves in the jungle to come up against a more deadly trap when she is brought into the fold of task force, Lucky Dragon. Assigned to a deadly covert operation, the task force lures Paddy through its maze of deceit, treachery and assassination. Her allusions are shattered when she learns that the secret, back door, government society that has sanctioned this mission has deemed her a liability.

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About the Author

I worked for the Canadian Federal Government for thirteen years, retired and started working as a freelance writer in 1990. I wrote feature stories for the Weekend Focus newspaper. I had my own column with The Grimsby Independent. While working on this novel I wrote two articles. One to a newspaper, the Ottawa Citizen and the other to an investigative magazine called The Probe. I have lived in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada for the last nine years with my husband and three children. In 2004 Bancroft won a competition for the most talented town in Ontario, by TVO Ontario. Bancroft is the land of a thousand lakes, with the soul of a thousand artists.

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