AID AND COMFORT is not a potboiler; it is a blood boiler, and your blood will surely boil when you read the Holzers' description of Jane Fonda's treachery during the Vietnam War.
As a combat infantry officer in Vietnam, I can attest to the fact that Jane Fonda, and people like her, succeeded very well in lowering troop morale, and as any combat vet will tell you, low morale leads to lowered effectiveness, and that leads to battlefield deaths.
Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer present a well written, well researched, and very logical indictment for treason against Jane Fonda. This book is not only about the past, it is about the post-September 11, 2001, present; it is about people who can find nothing good about their country, people who see no moral justification in national defense, people who make excuses for and who aid and abet repressive and hostile regimes.
For those of use who answered the call of duty, and who put their lives on the line for this country, Jane Fonda will forever be a symbol of treachery, divisiveness, and cowardice. In a way, she got away with treason, but the Holzers' book goes a long way in righting a terrible wrong.
Nelson DeMille is a best-selling novelist. His last was THE LION'S GAME. His last movie was THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER. His next novel -- UP COUNTRY -- about Viet Nam, will be published on January 29, 2002.