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Sands’s uncle is a famous war hero remembered as “the Colonel” in the intelligence community.

Skip Sands, a former Air Force official, has been selected to work in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong army striving surreptitiously in Vietnam for political and geographical control. The book’s title references several Biblical verses thematically related to its discussion of culpability, violence, and chance. The novel moves between 19, setting its epilogue in 1983, in the aftermath of the war. It also follows James Houston, an infantry private, his brother, Bill, and an employee of a Canadian NGO, Kathy Jones. Set mainly in 1965, it follows Skip Sands, a newly minted CIA agent who goes to Vietnam during the American insurgency. Tree of Smoke is an American novel about the Vietnam War by Denis Johnson.