Pashtun is a modern day version of the Phoenix Program where a soldier is recruited by the CIA to assassinate suspected Taliban
and Al Qaeda terrorists. The real targets become blurred and the hero of this work discovers it's oil and heroin driving many of the
missions he's sent to carry out. His new found knowledge takes him and his two comrades to
Captain Chyang Fang, the half-breed Chinese-Vietnamese head of the city’s
Homicide Division, and main character in The Sixth Man, is
hated by nearly everyone in Saigon. Now, he has been assigned to find out who is killing high-ranking Vietnamese government officials
and leaving toy cobras on their dead bodies. Fang must rely on the dim-witted Sergeant Phan to drive him around and carry a pistol,
since Fang’s bloodline makes him untrustworthy. But Phan is more interested in finding Larry the Lobster in the SpongeBob Squarepants
game on his Smartphone. More ably, Dr. Ngo, Saigon’s hunchback play-do faced coroner, uses all the skills he’s acquired in forensics
by watching imported CSI shows to assist Fang in his investigation. Fang uses his sharp wit and cynicism as the only weapon he has
to battle bigotry and prejudice, while he spends his off time in the dream world of the Ma Jing’s opium den. The mystery heightens
as more ex-Viet Cong officers die and Fang’s search leads him to an old Montagnard acquaintance and Frank Morgan, a Phoenix program
assassin now retired from killing for the CIA along with his gorgeous Malaysian girlfriend. The Sixth Man is set in modern Saigon
and is a story rich in Vietnamese culture and history, while portraying some of the horrors of the past.