In the Crossfire, by Ngo Van Robert Porter has quit the

Robert Porter has quit the FBI in search of his long-lost (and presumed dead) love

to tend to the mysterious but beautiful carp in her garden

A simple favor for Aurélie ends with a possessed antique doll loose in the house

Or will he fail and be forced to wander the world as one of them

from tips about craft to understanding the responsibility of writing about animals

In the Crossfire, by Ngo Van Robert Porter has quit theIn 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once morethis time by the Stalinist freedom fighter Ho Chi Minh. Five years after that, Van was in Paris, working with the surrealists. In the Crossfire documents Ngo Van's incredible