Arrival Point
A Novel
Phillip H. McMath

Monty Poltam, a State Department aid officer stationed in Vietnam since 1968, finds the murdered
body of his Vietnamese lover, Renee. It is just before the American evacuation of Saigon.
Monty is convinced that Renee was murdered on the orders of the mysterious “Vladimir,” a
Russian spy operating in Vietnam. Determined to find Vladimir, Monty goes to Hong Kong
where he enlists the help of the CIA in tracking down the elusive Russian. Surprise after surprise
unfolds as Monty begins to understand Vietnam and what happened to Renee and why.

Phillip H. McMath was born in 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Sidney and Anne McMath. He was educated in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended Hendrix College and, later, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, from which he received a double major in English and dramatic arts. After college, he was commissioned in the United States Marine Corps as a second lieutenant and served in Vietnam as a tank platoon and company commander in combat during the years of 1969 and 1970. Separating from the Marine Corps after three years of active service, he was discharged with the rank of captain. He then obtained a law degree from the University of Arkansas and has been a partner with the firm of McMath Woods, P.A. involved in civil litigation since 1973. McMath has created a unique body of work in fiction, drama, and journalism. Arrival Point is the second of a trilogy of novels that include Native Ground and Lost Kingdoms for which he has won the Arkansiana Award for fiction. In 2009 McMath was inducted into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. His latest novel, The Broken Vase received the Booker Worthen Prize for fiction. He lives in Little Rock with his wife Carol.

November 2011
6x9, 240 pages
$19.95 paper
978-0-9824295-8-7

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