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The old iron bridge shown here was replaced by a new concrete structure in the 1980s. The character Alden Pyle, identified with the 'Quiet American', is killed by communist / nationalist assassains on 'the Bridge to Dakow', and his body thrown into the waters below.
He was accompanied by an American aid worker who lectured him about finding a 'third force in Vietnam'. He was apparently inspired to write The Quiet American in October 1951 while driving back to Saigon from the Ben Tre province. The book draws on Greene's experiences as a war correspondent for The Times and Le Figaro in French Indochina 1951-1954.
The Quiet American is an anti-war novel by British author Graham Greene, first published in United Kingdom in 1955 and in the United States in 1956.
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