by Clair Miller
About the Author: Clair Miller is a veteran who served in 1968 and 1969 in the 25th Infantry Division with the Triple Deuce in TayNinh province. He has been married for thirty-nine years and he and his wife have one son. Clair is now retired and living in Phoenix, Arizona.
About The Book: Carlee Taylor was a quintessential California Blond. Less quintessential was the fact she was married, but that didn't bother brash young Colby Hanson as he prepared to leave for Viet Nam as a fighter pilot.
His infidelity with her provides the impulse for her husband's relentless quest for revenge as he rises from local politician to U.S. Senator and uses bribery and attempt murder to conceal Colby's existence in a P.O.W. camp after the young pilot's plain has been shot down by the North Vietnamese Army.
Forgotten Brother takes place as the Viet Nam war winding down and the government is looking for ways to extricate America from the quagmire of an unpopular and unwinnable war. Against the fascinating historical background, U.S. Senator Brian Taylor uses his office to deny the existence of the American P.O.W.'s left behind and to gain his final revenge in Colby Hanson, imprisoned in an isolated prison camp in Laos.
Clair Miller's fast paced novel brings to light the plight of those pilots and soldiers left behind without ever having a full account of their plight given to the American people, let alone to their own relatives after the war.
More than 1,000 M.I.A and P.O.W.'s from the North Vietnamese Theater are still unaccounted for. Only 9 of 565 in Laos have been released, 76 of them taken to Cambodia are still listed as missing.
Although Forgotten Brother's Colby Hanson is a fictional hero, he is a real person still to many of these P.O.W. families.