Books
Cain's experiences in Vietnam inspired him to write a non-fiction manuscript entitled Saigon Alley. After nearly every publisher in New York rejected the proposed book, Zebra Books' Michael Seidman (coincidentally also an ex-MP) offered Cain a four book contract, but only if he would fictionalize his manuscript and increase the sex and violence. This ultimately became the cult classic Saigon Commandos series, which, beginning in 1983, ran to 12 books. Book 9 of this series was made into a film, called Saigon Commandos by Roger Corman's Concorde Studios.
Cain went on to write the War Dogs series for Zebra, using the pseudonym Nik Uhernik. He then wrote the first eight books in Ballantine Books' Chopper-1 series, under the pseudonym Jack Hawkins. He also penned three books in the Able Team series, which was a spin-off of the immensely popular Mack Bolan Exceutioner novels.
He wrote the final installment in the Vietnam Ground Zero series, (published as Zebra Cube in the Heroes trilogy, using the pseudonym Robert Baxter. then created and wrote the six-book series Little Saigon (only four books of which were published by Lynx Books of New York before Lynx folded).
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