![]() Pyle subscribes to the ideas of the political thinker York Harding, who believed that Vietnam and other Eastern nations needed a Third Force-neither colonialism nor Communism. Pyle works for the Economic Aid Mission, an American institution that tries to promote economic security in Vietnam. Pyle is young, handsome, and quiet-altogether unlike most of the Americans Fowler knew in Vietnam. The novel then unfolds largely in flashbacks.įowler remembers meeting Pyle at a bar. Although Fowler explains very little to Vigot, he privately remembers his relationship with Pyle, noting that Pyle, an agent for the American government, was responsible for at least fifty deaths in Vietnam. The police inspector, Vigot, suspiciously asks Fowler what he knows about Pyle and Pyle’s death. After hours of waiting, a police officer calls Fowler in to the police station, where Fowler learns that Pyle has been killed and thrown under a bridge. Fowler is waiting for Alden Pyle, the young American for whom Phuong has left Fowler. Thomas Fowler, a middle-aged English reporter, lives in Saigon with his ex-lover, Phuong Hei. We begin in Vietnam in the 1950s, at the height of the tension between French colonialism and local Vietnamese Communism. ![]()
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