The ambassador

In 1963, in the war-torn city of Saigon, lives held no meaning in the face of the unbridled pursuit of absolute power. Maxwell Amberley, dedicated United States ambassador and disciple of ancient Eastern wisdom, is the man sent by Washington to solve the enigma of an unending war.

Suddenly caught between fanatics and assassins, forced to employ the rules of survival in the game of diplomacy, Amberley ultimately has to make a choice of tragic proportions: either protect the Vietnamese government, or support a bloody coup d'état.

This remarkable novel transports us to the highest echelons of power and corruption and introduces us to the life of an ambassador, a man tormented by his conscience because he knows that only his decision can determine peace or unleash the war that will destroy humanity.