I Know Where They Are
In late 1966, Joe leaves a small Iowa town for Vietnam because the Army tells him to go.
He returns because there are men who haven't come home.
After surviving the Central Highlands, Joe learns about American servicemen missing beyond the reach of ordinary units. He becomes convinced that some can still be found. He reenlists, earns his way into the world of Special Forces, reconnaissance, communications, and recovery operations, and begins chasing reports through places most Americans will never know existed.
Again and again, he gets close.
An abandoned camp. A trail gone cold. A name without an answer.
"I know where they are," Joe tells his family.
For him, the words become more than a belief. They become a promise.
But Vietnam does not end cleanly. When withdrawal and changing policy finally force Joe home, he must build a life among people who love him while carrying the men he could not bring back. Marriage, fatherhood, addiction, sobriety, memory, and guilt become another kind of battlefield-and two missing names remain with him long after the country has tried to move on.
Set against the Vietnam War and its aftermath, I Know Where They Are is a historical novel about the missing, the men who searched for them, the families who waited, and the veterans who discovered that coming home did not always mean leaving the war behind.
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