Psychologist John Moore is shaken when his PTSD Vietnam War patient reveals war crimes committed with a CIA agent and a South Vietnamese Army colonel. Moore, who served in the Vietnam War commanding an infantry company with the 101st Airborne Division, flashes back to his own war demons while still depressed over his wife's death. The following day the patient is found dead―an apparent suicide. Stunned, Moore begins investigating the dead patient, the rogue CIA agent, and the lethal Vietnam War apparatus--the CIA's Phoenix Program--in which 81,740 communists and innocent Vietnamese civilians were killed. An attempt on Moore's life forces him to return to Vietnam to assist officials of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the CIA in capturing the CIA agent and the South Vietnamese Army colonel. Both fled to Vietnam during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, to blend and disappear with the 80 million Vietnamese traveling and celebrating. The two intend to recover buried loot, hidden since 1973. In the sweltering jungles of diverse, mysterious Vietnam, shrouded in his war memories, John Moore partners with an attractive female Vietnam National Police Agent, conflicted over his feelings for her, and for being allied with the former North Vietnamese who show their animosity toward him for all the death and destruction of the war. His pursuit of the CIA agent, a fellow American, comes to a conclusion in Laos on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail. Reviewed By Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite Legacy of War by Ed Marohn is something a little bit unique. It isn't exactly a war novel, but the Vietnam War dominates the narrative. It is a thriller, but it is more of a psychological thriller than spies getting into and out of tight situations. It moves from country to country in a way that keeps the pace moving quickly, but it ends up where you know that it had to; the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. I loved Legacy of War. It has the insight and reflection that any realistic novel about the chaos of war and life must have to be realistic and authentic. Legacy of War will make you think and feel deeply about right and wrong. It also shows that when everything is said and done, some people just cannot find their way through the horror and confusion of war. And some people can. John Moore is a great hero. He is the perfect kind of hero to tell a story like this. He is educated. He is a person who indulges in a lot of self-reflection, and he knows a little bit about the human mind and the human heart. Ed Marohn's best choice in writing Legacy of War is choosing John Moore to tell this tale. There are other good characters, some of them even great. This is because Ed Marohn is a great writer. He handles all aspects of storytelling like a master, so we can feel the different settings. We know the different characters, and in the case of the bad guys, we can feel their evil. If you like serious, well-written stories about war in general, and stories about the Vietnam War in particular, you will love Legacy of War. The Booklife Prize review 2019​ " Legacy of War is a well-researched and tightly-plotted novel that will have readers turning the pages to find out (how) a decades long plot for revenge turns out." "Fans of the military thriller genre will find a lot to enjoy in the pages of Legacy of War . The novel is not a caricature of history, but rather looks back at the Vetnam War to show how it affected personal lives and culture at large." Reviewed by Jose Nateras . Chicago Writers Association-Windy City Reviews In Legacy of War, Ed Marohn, a Vietnam veteran and Assistant Professor of Military History, tells the story of another veteran of the war in Vietnam, psychologist John Moore. Decades after his experience in Vietnam, Dr. Moore is still having nightmares about his time there. Having lost his wife, Dr. Moore is only now starting to find himself developing a desire for a fellow psychologist, Dr. Sally Catton. When the V.A. hospital becomes overwhelmed and unable to provide the veterans with the medical services they need, the V.A. refers one of its patients to Dr. Moore. It's Dr. Catton who warns Moore against taking on fellow veteran, Tom Reed, as a patient, and maybe she's right. Throughout their sessions, Dr. Moore finds some common denominators between Reed's time in Vietnam and his own, specifically an Agent Ramsey of the CIA, all leading Dr. Moore to delve into his memories of Vietnam and the dark secrets of his own family and the mysterious Phoenix Program. This journey takes him through the traumas of his past and the more recent loss of his wife as he deals with new attractions and old demons of depression and PTSD. Marohn allows his personal experiences and memory as a veteran, as well as his expertise as a military history scholar, to develop his novel into a genuinely three-dimensional world. The narrative takes the reader on the same journey Marohn's protagonist finds himself on, bouncing between the past a