Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Private War of Corporal Henson | 2014 | E. Michael Helms | Buy |
The Private War of Corporal Henson sits between Helms’s Vietnam memoir and his crime fiction as a work of military fiction that uses his firsthand knowledge of military life in a narrative context. Published in 2014 alongside the second Mac McClellan mystery, it shows him working in multiple modes simultaneously.
For readers interested in military fiction and the interior experience of combat, it stands alongside The Proud Bastards as evidence of Helms’s commitment to getting the military experience right on the page.