When the last American helicopter darted from the rooftop of the U.S. embassy as Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, a silence descended over Indochina. The region virtually sank below the horizon of Western consciousness until 1979. No other journalist followed the dimly perceived struggles and conflicts in Communist- controlled Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as Nayan Chanda, Indochina Correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Based on firsthand knowledge, high-level access, extensive research, and hundreds of interviews with key officials in Hanoi. Peking, Phnom Penh, Washington, Moscow, Paris, and Tokyo, Brother Enemy stands as the most authoritative, comprehensive history of the war in Indochina after the fall of Saigon. Chanda provides the first fascinating glimpse into the fear and ambition that led to the Khmer Rouge genocide; gives us the inside story of secret Vietnamese plans to invade Cambodia: tells how Zbigniew Brzezinski's attempt to play the China Card made the U.S. an unwitting partner of China in its historical conflict with Vietnam; and explains how this policy opened the door to Soviet military expansion in Southeast Asia. Already hailed as the "most brilliant history" of the past decade in Indochina, Brother Enemy is destined to become a classic.