{"product_id":"below-william-jr-ferrier-9798257967085","title":"Below: A Vietnam Tunnel Rat Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the Vietnam War novel, \u003ci\u003eBrown Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary novel about the tunnel rats of Vietnam. Until now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCu Chi, November 1967. The tunnels run for two hundred miles beneath the red dirt of South Vietnam-three levels deep, carved by hand, invisible from the surface. The Viet Cong live in them, fight from them, vanish into them. The U.S. Army sends men down to find them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarle Cain is one of those men. A coal miner's son from Virginia, he carries a .45 pistol and a flashlight into tunnels so narrow he cannot turn around. Fourteen inches wide. Twenty inches high. Absolute dark. He checks his weapon the same way every time-magazine, chamber, safety-and he goes down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Thi Lan is a nurse in the underground hospital on the third level. She treats the wounded by candlelight with no anesthesia and no resupply. She has not seen the sky in four months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the war builds toward the Tet Offensive of January 1968, their worlds move toward a collision that neither can see coming-one descending, one waiting below. Men disappear. The tunnels do not give them back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSet during the most harrowing chapter of the Vietnam War, BELOW is a novel about what happens beneath the surface-beneath the ground, beneath the skin, beneath the history we think we know.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Matterhorn, The Things They Carried, and The Women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Jr. Ferrier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257967085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"William Jr. Ferrier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172897235199,"sku":"9798257967085","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/below-william-jr-ferrier-9798257967085","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}