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Published for the fortieth anniversary of the final days of the Vietnam War, this is the suspenseful and moving tale of how John Riordan, an assistant manager of Citibanks Saigon branch, devised a daring plan to save 106 Vietnamese from the dangers of the Communist takeover. Riordanwho had served in the US Army after the Tet Offensive and had left the military behind for a career in international bankingwas not the type to take dramatic action, but once the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon in April 1975 and it was clear that Riordans Vietnamese colleagues and their families would be stranded in a city teetering on total collapse, he knew he could not leave them behind. Defying the objections of his superiors and going against the official policy of the United States, Riordan went back into Saigon to save them.