""i love the way wilfred recycles the bodies. that's fabulous stuff with a direct line to heller's catch-22 and perfectly captures the insanity of the vietnam war." -richard peabody, co-editor of gargoyle magazine counting bodies in vietnam. in this earthy war/peace novel, comedy frames grim pictures of war. morris weaves combat, a love affair, and military satire into a story that is by turns terrifying, gruesome, and mad, and one acted by a memorable cast of characters-grunts and hookers, vietcong soldiers and spies, heroes and inane officers. it begins on a huge base in the central highlands in 1967 where lieutenant wilfred carmenghetti falls in love with can and smuggles her to a forward firebase. in the field he and his platoon win stunning victories, but spies plot his death, vietcong soldiers attack the platoon, and can leaves him. what follows is a surprising and fanciful comedic ending. cologne no. 10 for men is a book to make us fear, weep, laugh, and remember. a soldier in vietnam invents a uniquely absurd solution to the horrors of war. a relatively naïve wilfred carmenghetti comes to the far east to outmaneuver the draft and save the western world. a funny and serviceable satire about the gross rationalizations that propel war and peace. -kirkus discoveries