Vietnam Helicopter Pilot turns to smuggling drugs and prison: ChickenHawk.

In his 1983 memoir, "Chickenhawk," Robert Mason described his life as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. The book achieved critical and commercial success.
Mason returned from Vietnam internally broken and without the smallest idea of how to repair himself. Cheating on his wife did not help ease the pain. Alcohol and pills didn't help.
He experimented with various careers-he was an importer of knives, a teacher of other pilots, manager of a custom mirror factory, a photographer-but nothing could reconcile his memories of combat with more domestic realities. Finally, Mason and his family settled on a piece of land they'd purchased in rural Florida and sank gradually but steadily toward poverty.
By November 1980 Mason had completed his Vietnam memoir, "Chickenhawk," and found an agent for it. But the book had not yet been bought by a publisher, and, of course, Mason had no way of knowing it would someday earn him half-a-million dollars. He and Patience were living in their unfinished cabin. The only work to be found was delivering newspapers. At that point a neighbor and fellow Vietnam veteran offered Mason a way out of the swamp of poverty: a sailboat trip to Columbia that promised $30,000 for two months work. He was arrested and served 20 months in jail. His wife Patience went to work promoting his book.
The sequel is called Chickenhawk: Back in The World.

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