# Please identify this novel for me?

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**Created:** [January 14, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-novel-for-me/978241 "2023-01-14T23:12:44Z")\
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I read it back in the '80s, I think. It’s set in Vietnam, and there’s a black GI whose nickname is Chigger or Chigro or Chegro. As I recall, he meets a particularly grisly end.

I’m pretty sure it’s not _ **Going after Cacciato** _. Any ideas?

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Carpenter’s Gothic?

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> Carpenter’s Gothic

Doesn’t sound familiar. IIRC, the action takes place during the war.