Who is Charlie?? Burning Angel

 For the next time I read the book - or the next person who finishes with that question.

Charlie is the name (yes, given by the US troops to the Viet Cong, but also) that Dave is told as the name of the button man that has been hired by the mob to "clean up" - the assassin to kill him.  Later, during an altercation with a man with bad intentions, Dave asks "Are you Charlie?"

If you've come here after reading the book, you know who "Charlie" is.  See "Beast of Buchenwald".

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