The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Description

Following a rowdy night at his local New York bar, ex-Marine and merchant seaman ‘Chick’ Donohue decides to complete a legendary mission. He’ll travel to Vietnam and track down his combat buddies. Now, decades on from 1968, he recounts the remarkable true story of how he actually did it. Armed with Irish luck and a backpack full of alcohol, Chick works his passage to Vietnam, lands in Qui Nhon and begins to track down his serving friends one by one. But things quickly go awry, and as he talks his way through checkpoints and unwittingly into dangerous situations, Chick sees more of the war than he ever anticipated – spending a terrifying time in the Demilitarized Zone and getting caught up in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. Chick survives on his wits, but what he finds in Vietnam comes as a shock, and he finds himself questioning why his friends were ever led into the war in the first place.