''The Khaki Mafia'' is a novel about the

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Robin Moore Robert Lowell Moore Jr. (October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who wrote '' The Green Berets'', '' The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy'', and with Xaviera Hollander and ...

and June Collins, published by Crown in 1971. Collins was an entertainer who had performed for US troops in

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

and later testified before a

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committee about corruption among senior military personnel. The novel's lead character, an entertainer named Jody T. Neale, is based on Collins, who used the professional name Junie Moon, and the plot details diversion of taxpayer money and other criminal activities by

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officials in the war zone. In the mid-1960s, Moore had written ''The Green Berets'', a novel celebrating the U.S. role in the

. He later wrote ''

The Happy Hooker ''The Happy Hooker: My Own Story'' is a best-selling memoir by Xaviera Hollander, a call girl, published in 1971. It sold over 20 million copies. Robin Moore, who took Hollander's dictations of the book's contents, came up with the title, while Y ...

'' with

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, considered a "portrait of a sexual revolution." ''The Khaki Mafia'' takes a far more negative view of U.S. involvement in Vietnam than did the previous war novel, reflecting the spread of anti-war attitudes among Americans late in the conflict. Collins wrote other books about the Vietnam War: '' Goodbye Junie Moon'' and its sequel, ''Junie Moon Rising''.

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1971 American novels Novels set during the Vietnam War Novels set in Vietnam Novels set in Washington, D.C. {{VietnamWar-novel-stub