Author Description

The Advisor is a romantic War Story as told by Colonel Paul Tyler, US Army Retired to his grandchildren about his time in Vietnam as a young Military Intelligence Officer assigned to an experimental three-man District Advisory team in the Mekong Delta. The story takes place during the Vietnamization phase of the Vietnam War and follows Tyler as he works to develop his Vietnamese counterparts into a working and effective team.<br/>During a chance meeting on a trip to Saigon he Is introduced to a young American Red Cross worker by a WAC Captain that Tyler had met during his Military Intelligence school. A deep and passionate relationship develops between the two young people. Their story is told through their love letters and through Paul’s occasional in-country trips to Saigon. The war stories are based on actual events that occurred during the Vietnam War.