Not the girl
he came to meet
Tom Harston steps off the plane at Ho Chi Minh airport and is greeted by an eighteen-year-old escort named Rose. A retired inventor of computer games, this is his first trip to Vietnam since serving as a G.I. At first Rose conforms to all his demands about the type of girl he had decided to meet.
But Rose is puzzled. The physical submission most men take for granted is not required of her — instead, all Tom wants to do is talk and get to know her. In due course she learns the secret life he has never revealed to anyone.
Slowly she realises the reason for his trip: one that will shatter her illusions and change her life forever.
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