D. Vincent Delorenzo is a U.S. Army veteran and the author of Sand and Silence and The Last Boat: Echoes After the War, the first two volumes in The Quiet Soldier Series. His upcoming literary war novel, Ashes in the Rain, continues his signature exploration of conflict, displacement, and the quiet moments that follow catastrophe.
Influenced by authors like Hemingway, Tim O’Brien, and Anthony Doerr, Delorenzo writes with a stripped-down, poetic voice that reflects both lived experience and deep emotional realism. His stories aren’t about battlefield heroics—they’re about memory, silence, and the weight of what we carry when no one’s watching.
When he’s not writing, Delorenzo finds peace in island life, distant shorelines, and the slow, meditative rhythm of boats, books, and solitude.
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D. Vincent Delorenzo is a U.S. Army veteran and the author of Sand and Silence and The Last Boat: Echoes After the War, the first two volumes in The Quiet Soldier Series. His upcoming literary war novel, Ashes in the Rain, continues his signature exploration of conflict, displacement, and the quiet moments that follow catastrophe.
Influenced by authors like Hemingway, Tim O’Brien, and Anthony Doerr, Delorenzo writes with a stripped-down, poetic...
Books
Ashes In The Rain: What do you carry when your country begins to burn?
A literary novel written in real time, during a modern war.
When rockets strike the Thai–Cambodian border, a family of three flees into the jungle. The father carries a medical bag. The boy carries a backpack. The mother holds a green umbrella — and everything else.
Ashes in the Rain is a deeply human, emotionally charged novel written in the...
The Last Boat: Echoes After the War (The Quiet Soldier Series Book 2)
The Last Boat: Echoes After the War
Book Two of The Quiet Soldier Series
By D. Vincent Delorenzo
After the war, he disappeared.
Not into the earth, not into the bottle, but into the sea.
On the sun-bleached island of Ko Samet, a former U.S. Army veteran known only to a few locals begins the quiet work of salvaging a wrecked Thai junk boat from the...
Sand and Silence: A Gulf War Novella (The Quiet Soldier Series Book 1)
A soldier’s war doesn’t end when he leaves the battlefield—it just follows him home.
Sand and Silence is a stripped-down, emotionally raw war novella in the tradition of Hemingway and Tim O’Brien. Set during the First Gulf War, the story follows Private Daniel Keane and his platoon through sandstorms, firefights, burn pits, and boredom. They...
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