Echo of the Bamboo — Robert Walker

Fifty years ago, James Calloway left Vietnam in pieces. Now, he's come back to bury the ghosts.Seeking to outrun a lifetime of survivor's guilt, the aging, war-scarred veteran buys a villa on the serene coast of Da Nang, hoping the quiet will finally silence the echoes of his past. But the ghosts have been waiting. His new home stands on the blood-soaked ground of his former firebase, and the land itself remembers the horrors he's spent a half-century trying to forget.Vivid, terrifying hallucinations bleed into his waking hours. At night, he sleepwalks on phantom patrols, his body re-enacting a brutal, suppressed memory of a village massacre. Haunted by the face of a mysterious woman in a blue blouse and the echo of a baby's cry, James is dragged back into the heart of a war crime he can't fully remember but knows he was a part of.As past and present violently merge, James must launch his own investigation into a military cover-up, leading him to a cryptic local shopkeeper who holds the final, devastating piece of the truth. To unearth what really happened, he begins a desperate excavation—both of the haunted ground and his own fractured mind—before the ghosts of the dead consume what's left of the living.A gripping psychological thriller about the price of memory, Echo of the Bamboo is a story of atonement, conspiracy, and one man's harrowing journey to find peace on the same ground where he lost his soul.