Internal Conflicts

About this book

This book will thrust the reader back to the turbulent 1960's to capture the tenor of the times in one of the most powerful and emotionally compelling stories to chronicle the Vietnam era. Moving deftly from the epic to the personal and the hilarious to the heart braking. internal conflicts follows Peter Luton, a young, idealistic army officer as he searches for sex, love, manhood, identity, and meaning in a world turned upside down. Recently on National Public Radio, an author said, "A good novel raises more questions than it answers." By that standard, Internal Conflicts is certainly a "good novel," for it raises all sorts of questions about life, death, love, sex, war, peace and the meaning of human existence. In fact, nearly every page confronts the protagonist with a question, a choice, a dilemma. One of the major questions that Peter Luton seems to constantly encounter is: "What must I do to prove that I am a man?" According to psychologist Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, author or The Hazards of Being Male, women never have to "prove" their femininity. Many young males, on the other hand, often feel compelled to "prove" to themselves and others that they are worthy of being considered "real men." It is this drive to prove one's masculinity that is at the heart of Internal Conflicts, the debut novel by acclaimed author and military historian Flint Whitlock, that is part romance novel, part war story, part murder mystery, and part psychological study. Set in the turbulent 1960s, when America was being pulled apart by war, racial issues, and political assassinations, Internal Co…