It’s something of a sequel to Fool Me Once (2016) which was adapted into an excellent TV series.
Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs.
Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City.
One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day.
His investigation will bring him face-to-face with his past—and prove, after all this time, he’s nobody’s fool.
After weeks of heat and humidity, I finally headed UP to Da Lat, or Dalat, at 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level. One of the most popular tourist destinations in Vietnam.
Tourists love any climate that can grow tea or coffee. Hill stations.
I walked the canals and lake both nights I was there. Pretty in the full moon.
No photo editing.
Short on time, I signed up for a VIP tour. A BIG day.
Cost was CAD $31.40 for 8 hours of non-stop entertainment. That’s VIP in Vietnam. 😀
Best was my Easy Rider motorcycle driver / guide, Mr Hieu. 60 years old — but hyper and energetic as a teenager.
We had lunch at one of his personal favourite spots, not a typical tourist only restaurant.
Mr Hieu been guiding this tour since 2002. He was handpicked as my driver by the hostel where I stayed.
Mê Linh Coffee Plantation & Weasel (Civit) Coffee … (NO, I did not drink weasel poop coffee)
Mr Hieu added many extra stops unknown to any other driver. Like this inexplicable giant chicken in one village.
He did his best to get me hooked up, as well, knowing ALL the single Vietnamese women en route. 😀
BEST was the Pongour Waterfall. I flew my drone here as Vietnam is yet to get organized enough to post signs disallowing them.
Pongour waterfall.
NEW was taking something called an “Alpine Rollercoaster“. Over 2,400 meters, the Datanla coaster is longest in Asia.
There was some extra cost for this. Well worth it.
Safe? I dunno. Signs say you can crash one into another. BUT I appreciated having brakes so I could slow down and not fly off at the turns. 😀
With its year-round cool weather, Da Lat supplies huge quantities of temperate agriculture products.
We visited a mushroom farm. VERY interesting.
We saw every stage of silk production. Fascinating, as well.
Almost every tour in Vietnam includes a giant Buddhist statue. Many are female.
The image of Quan Âm as a maternal figure of mercy and compassion evolved through the blending of Mahayana Buddhism with Vietnamese folk traditions, including the veneration of mother goddesses.
Nha Trang in 2025 is overfull with overweight Russian men with wife / mistress. Many signs include Russian and some businesses provide tourist services mainly for the Russians.
Unwelcome in many nations, in 2025 Russians are vacationing in Turkey, Thailand, China, the UAE, and Vietnam.
This city is very popular with Koreans, as well.
BEST time to walk the beach is early morning or in the evening.
Tourists feed them directly, risking scratches and bites.
I took in the “animal circus“, as well. Noting that dog tricks seem perfectly acceptable — but that monkey tricks seem abusive. No logic there, I’m afraid.
The BIG attraction is the Golden Bridge opened 2018.
You’ve seen it on Instagram looking like this.
The reality is that the bridge is constantly packed with hordes, many of whom would happily throw you off in order to get the ideal photo location. To them I say …
I DID throw some competitors over the edge to get my own iconic pic.
Best advice is to go to one of the less crowded Golden Bridgeimitators in the Philippines, China, or elsewhere. 😀
In fact, I found more hands in the resort. Since I was alone, I’m assuming this area was not open to tourists. Oh well.
Criticism of Ba Na Hills, referred to by some as “Fairyland,” centers on it being an inauthentic, overcrowded, and overly commercialized theme park, with visitors finding the environment fake, the food uninspired, and the Golden Bridge experience ruined by throngs of people.
At one point I concluded, this is what TrumpLand would look like, if a theme park. 😀
Of course if Vegas kitsch amuses, you’ll have some laughs.
The super popular tour from Da Nang starts with a visit to a gift shop en route. What else?
Surprisingly, I quite enjoyed learning about pearls and precious woods.
You take a cable car up to the mountain peak. It’s the “longest non-stop single track cable car“, at 5,801 metres. In fact, this attraction has 6 cable cars now. They need more.
Massive, impossible construction is underway. Our tour guide is very disappointed. He predicts it will be a disaster when finished.
And even better psychological insight into Dr. JOSEPH O’LOUGHLIN diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
A beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. …
When an unknown young woman is found dead with multiple stab wounds – all of them self-inflicted – the police ask Joe to help them understand the crime. Are they dealing with a murder or a suicide?
Reluctantly, he agrees to help and the brutalised body he views at the mortuary turns out to be someone he knows: Catherine Mary McBride, a nurse and former colleague.
At the same time, Joe is grappling with a troubled young patient, Bobby Moran, whose violent dreams are becoming more real.
As Bobby’s behaviour grows increasingly erratic, Joe begins to ponder what he’s done in the past and what he might do next. Is there a link between his terrible dreams and Catherine McBride?
Hanoi has already started implementing a motorbike ban, beginning with petrol-powered motorbikes inside Ring Road 1 on July 1, 2026. These restrictions aim to combat the city’s severe air pollution, progressively phasing out fossil-fuel vehicles
I’ll believe that when I see it. 😀
I did see tourist areas blocked off for the evening in some other cities. Restaurants and bars could spill on to the street as they do in Europe.
He was worldly having worked on ships from 1911 to 1917. This included stops in the USA.
He lived in France for years. Then moved to Moscow in 1923. And to China in November 1924. In Canton, Hồ organized the Association of Vietnamese Youth.
It wasn’t until 1941 that Ho Chi Minh returned to Vietnam to lead the Việt Minh independence movement.
Rick McCharles 