Charmian, with a shadowy past and many contacts in the political and law-enforcement worlds, has put Converse in touch with the corrupt agents he will sell the drugs to. Converse has agreed to smuggle the heroin back to the United States. After discussing god and evil with the woman, Converse takes a taxi to meet with Charmian she sells him a large quantity of heroin. Converse despairs, realizing he has already spent a considerable amount of time in the country working on his project with nothing to show for it. Judging himself harshly for his lack of strength in pursuing his dreams, Converse hopes the trip to Vietnam will change his fortunes. Though he has had some success as a writer, he finds himself working for his father-in-law, who publishes a tabloid newspaper. He reads a letter from his wife detailing her activities in his absence, revealing that Converse is a journalist who has traveled to Vietnam in the hope of finding material he can turn into a book or a play. Carrying a large briefcase, he makes awkward conversation with a woman on the bench next to him whom he finds attractive. John Converse, an American journalist, sits down on a bench in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Inspired by Stone’s interactions with the so-called Merry Pranksters led by author Ken Kesey in the 1960s, Robert Stone’s novel Dog Soldiers (1974) depicts the dark underbelly of the 1960s as the counter-culture movement dissolved into chaos amid social change and the Vietnam War.
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