A True Story ..

Keith Payne's citation for the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration awarded in the British Commonwealth for valour, reads like a touch of madness, but then his men were being killed- - - wounded men groaning in the darkness, and he was damned if he was going to let the enemy do that- -

- execute his men ...

Where to? For Valour is a racy tale of action that takes the reader into the steamy jungles of Vietnam at the time when the Americans were in the throes of

'Vietnamization' - a period of intrigue and internecine rivalries. But this story is more than simply an action packed war story of a soldier who won a Victoria Cross. Set in contemporary Vietnam, it is also a poignant story of Payne's awakening to the betrayal perpetrated by the politicians and his attempt to come to grips with the aftermath of the war.