No-Rank Man

In the Summer of Love, 1967, a morally wounded Vietnam veteran Colm McCabe returns home seeking redemption in New York's East Village. As the vibrant, chaotic counterculture descends into a winter of madness, rape and murder, McCabe is confronted by his tumultuous past. The reappearance of a captivating woman he once loved forces him to confront a lie he has lived with for years, unraveling truths about his father's suicide and the deeper impacts of war. This compelling novel is the third in Brent Filson's "The Short Night Quintet," a series chronicling American social upheavals during the Vietnam War era. In the first, Phord's Way, a marine grapples with life-altering challenges despite giving his all to the Corps. In the second, Death Before War, Phord and McCabe face the brutal murder of their battalion commander in the Philippines before going to war in Vietnam. The upcoming fourth novel, Jan, explores Phord's battle with heroin addiction in a desert rehab facility under the unconventional care of an LSD-crazed woman who treats using sex. The final novel, Redemption and Revenge, promises a dramatic resolution as all characters' paths collide.2

-- Brent Filson