Operation Chaos
07 March 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'A remarkable story of subterfuge and brainwashing that few Hollywood scriptwriters could have made up' Simon Heffer, author of The Age of Decadence
In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, an exodus begins. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters escape the brutal fighting for the calm shores of Stockholm. These defectors are young, radical and want to start a...
Details
07 March 2019352 pages
9781447294740Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Sweet has found a craziness right at the heart of the human condition. He tells a bizarre, alarming story with wit, grace and an increasing anxiety that by asking questions he might be about to trigger World War Three. Read it with my jaw on the floor.Frank Cottrell-Boyce, author of Millions
Sweet's book will suck you into the hall of mirrors in which these guys were forced to live their lives . . . and still do. Engrossing and accurate.Michael Goldfarb, author of Ahmad's War, Ahmad’s Peace and Emancipation
A remarkable story of subterfuge and brainwashing that few Hollywood scriptwriters could have made up.Simon Heffer, author of High Minds and The Age of Decadence
Very well-informed and effortlessly funny.Independent
