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Retired ad execs like to tell war stories about their years in the trenches. Few can compare with those of former Young & Rubicam Worldwide chairman Ed Vick, a former U.S. Navy officer who commanded more than 100 combat patrols in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and along the Cambodian border in the late ’60s. Vick, 58, has now turned those recollections into his first novel, Slingshot.
Based on actual events, the book follows a Navy river patrol on a mission to rescue a downed pilot in Viet Cong territory in 1968.
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