The Ugly American

240 pp. "The Ugly American is the title of a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. It became a bestseller, was influential at the time, and is still in print. The book is a quasi-roman à clef; that is, it presents, in a fictionalized guise, the experience of Americans in Asia (that is, Vietnam) and allegedly portrays several real people, most of whose names have been changed." - Wikipedia