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John Thinnes, a detective on the Chicago police force, and Jack port Caleb, a well-known psychiatrist, were friends - improbable friends, maybe, with very different lives, but men who liked and respected each other. Plus they possessed one significant experience in common: Both had been "in country" in Vietnam through the battle. Their "labels" were different - Thinnes had been in the armed forces authorities, Caleb a medic, a conscientious objector who chose to fight with his medical equipment and his capability as a health care provider as his weapons, whether his patients were wounded on the field of challenge or on the packed, dangerous streets of Saigon. Arriving home, both men would have liked to your investment horrors of that war but cannot banish them of their memory. They had still left Vietnam, but Vietnam could not leave them. Within the years since the war concluded, Thinnes committed and fathered a son, Caleb prospered with his psychiatric practice and found a gay lover. Later, some murders and rapes brought the police officer and the psychiatrist jointly in an oddly matched a friendly relationship, each adding his special knowledge to try to solve crimes that were hard to unravel. But memories remain - unattractive memories of maiming and eradicating on both sides, not only of soldiers but of innocent Vietnamese farmers and their families, of drug retailers and the city's poor. And today, on a morning hours shortly into the new millennium, Jack port Caleb is hearing the air and hears of the taking pictures death of the Vietnamese immigrant woman in Chicago's "Little Saigon," and a flashback leaves him trembling. Thinnes's reaction to the murder is of another type of kind. He had been designated to the murder case, but when his lieutenant discovers that Thinnes possessed known the lifeless woman in Saigon, possessed even attended her matrimony to his now-dead buddy, he takes him off of the case, giving Thinnes's partner to use her outstanding skills as a detective under the officer who takes John Thinnes's place.