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In this powerfully plainspoken account, one of the leading female journalists of the Vietnam War relays her personal experience of the bloody conflict that divided America and changed the global political landscape... Whether reporting from the ditches of the siege of Khe Sanh, detailing the harried arrival of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, or fondly recalling her friendship with Pham Xuan An (one of the eponymous darling spies ), Keever provides a ground-level look-by turns shrewd, lucid, and humane-of the war in Vietnam. -Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Beverly Deepe Keever is a brilliant journalist, and her book is both a personal journal and a journalist's personal perspective on a long war. -Foreword Reviews Foreword Reviews These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige. -Bob Edmonds, McCormick Messenger -- Bob Edmonds McCormick Messenger Crisp and well-documented. -James Boylan, Columbia Journalism Review -- James Boylan Columbia Journalism Review Beverly Deepe Keever does an excellent job of recounting her unique Vietnam War experiences. -Marc Leepson, Books in Review II -- Marc Leepson Books in Review II Keever is an excellent storyteller... Death Zones & Darling Spies adds a woman's view to the many retrospectives on the Vietnam War-a war covered and perpetrated mostly by men. -Carolyn Johnsen, Lincoln Journal Star -- Carolyn Johnsen Lincoln Journal Star

Beverly Deepe Keever has given us a wonderful memoir not only about the intrigues of the first years of the Vietnam War but also of the men and women, including herself, who tried to untangle all the confusions for us. A must read. --William Prochnau, author of Once upon a Distant War --William Prochnau (09/19/2012)

Few correspondents engaged in the protracted, ugly war in Laos and Vietnam were as diligent and perceptive as Beverly Deepe. As energetic and intrepid as her male counterparts, she slogged through dense jungles, flooded rice fields, and thick rubber plantations, filing dispatches that shed insights on that futile conflict. Her account of that experience is authoritative, credible, lucid, vivid, and above all readable. Stanley Karnow, author ofVietnam: A History and winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in history Illuminating her role as the longest-serving U.S. correspondent covering the Vietnam War, Beverly Deepe Keever examines her dispatches and shows the disastrous consequences of failed policies. Her book presents the unadorned story of a young Nebraska woman who risked her life reporting on a war Americans should not have fought. Maurine Beasley, author of Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence Beverly Deepe Keever has given us a wonderful memoir not only about the intrigues of the first years of the Vietnam War but also of the men and women, including herself, who tried to untangle all the confusions for us. A must read. William Prochnau, author of Once upon a Distant War

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Beverly Deepe Keever is professor emerita at the University of Hawaii and the author of News Zero: The New York Times and the Bomb. She was inducted into the Marian Andersen Nebraska Women Journalists Hall of Fame in 2015.

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