Whether it was the war you'd loved or the war you loved to hate, the Nam wasn't over when it was over. Lt. Adrian Pokorny and Sgt. Paul Murphy learned that lesson over 40 years of silent struggle back in The World after serving in the mountains of I Corps with the 101st Airborne Division. They were the only survivors in a separated element of Pokorny's platoon in the summer of 1970 after a firefight in a no-name village. What they craved was a shot at redemption. "More than the gritty retelling of a motley squad's experiences in an endlessly puzzling war, War Without End, Amen puts the personal aftermath of Vietnam in our living rooms, our hospitals, the backseats of our cars." --Charles Brunt, Albuquerque (NM) Journal "Tim Coder's portrayal of the infantryman's lot in the field is brutally accurate down to the vernacular, equipment, fatigues, sleep deprivation, and the perspiration. Humping rucksacks and weapons over interminable mountains, enduring razor cuts from saw-grass, feeling the burn of insect repellant, and shivering under a poncho during monotonous rainstorms--this is the world of the infantryman." -- Raymond V. Millen, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "I now approach any new novel about the war in Vietnam with a question: 'How much more is there to say?' This book, the first novel by retired journalist Tim Coder, has answered: plenty. Its 500 pages are filled with powerful observations, compelling characters and fine writing....The story travels across the world and through decades, filled with battles and memories, ghosts and terrors. Lt. Adrian Pokorny and Sgt. Paul Murphy survived the war but traveled uneasily through life. Coder was a sergeant squad leader in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam. He tells his story from a soldier's perspective." --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune "As a sergeant squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division in 1969, Tim Coder wrote his book from the perspective of the infantrymen and NCOs who led them in the Vietnam War. It's especially moving and devastating to see war told by the men who did most of the fighting and dying, and that's what makes War Without End, Amen so great." --Vietnam Dog Handler Association national newspaper "In his novel, Tim Coder relives the war through the eyes of his main character, Sgt. Paul Murphy. Forty years after the war, Murphy travels to see his former platoon leader who is on his deathbed. The visit brings back the memories of firefights, friendships, folly, phantoms and screw-ups. For me, the story brought back the sounds, the smells, the fears, the terror, the valor-- and, yes, the survivors' guilt." --Roger Morrissey, Omaha.Com "War Without End, Amen is a complex, well-written novel which goes back and forth between present-day America and war-time South Vietnam . . . . A Vietnam War literature rarity is the introduction of an important Vietnamese character, Private Phong, an enemy deserter . . . . This is a novel with a strong moral conscience." --David Willson, in the online VVA Veteran The Vietnam War didn't end with the Army legality of DEROS that sent you back to The World. And it didn't end with the human finality of death. If you'd screwed up as a grunt in the field, you owed one final chit to the Nam. The big one. Yourself. The Nam wasn't over until the gods of the forsaken jungle said it was finally over. It was done when you'd done your duty. Tim Coder served with the 101st Airborne Division in 1969-70 as an infantry squad leader and later as a writer with the First Battalion and Third Brigade information offices. He is a retired wire-service and newspaper journalist who worked in Omaha, Chicago and Albuquerque. "War Without End, Amen: A Vietnam Story" is his first novel. He can be reached through his website at timcoderauthor.com