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Young is the author of three plays and nine books, including the national bestseller, The David Kopay Story. A journalist with UPI during the Vietnam War, he remembers his close friends and colleagues Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, who drove bright red motorcycles into Communist-held territory in Cambodia on April 6, 1970—and were never seen again. Young examines their lives and wonders what led them to take this one final risk, as well as includes profiles of several other colleagues who took very different paths from Flynn and Stone. These include the legendary madcap English photographer Tim Page, who left part of his skull in Vietnam and continues to this day to search Cambodia for the remains of his beloved friends. When first published in 1975, Two of the Missing was hailed by The Washington Post as “Magnificent…unforgettable…one of the best books yet prompted by the Vietnam War.” Truman Capote called it “a moving and engrossing chronicle of several fascinating young men drifting toward mysterious and desperate destinations.” Newsday described the book as “a tender book about war, about friendship and love, with more plain virility to it than all the gory epics put together.” Christopher Isherwood, author of Berlin Stories on which the musical Cabaret was based, said: “This is an extraordinary book, I cannot recommend it too highly.” The new edition by Press 53 contains 18 pages of photographs by and of these two courageous photojournalists who drove bright red motorcycles into Communist-held territory in Cambodia on April 6, 1970—and were never seen again. Most of these photos have never been published before. “Sean Flynn and Dana Stone were among the bravest and best of that daring young crew of photographers who covered the Vietnam War,” says author and friend Perry Deane Young. “Flynn was on assignment for Time magazine and Stone was a cameraman with CBS when they were last seen heading around a Communist roadblock near the Cambodian town of Chi Pou.” Director Ralph Hemecker has optioned the film rights to the book and is now in the process of casting. The screenplay was written by Young and Hemecker.