Nothing he learned in OCS or while teaching classes at the elite JFK Center for Special Warfare, prepared newly minted 2nd Lieutenant JD Burton for the chaos and calamity he faces in Vietnam. Dropped into the urban stir of Saigon with its glitzy hotels and inexhaustible partying, JD is tasked with the mission of winning the hearts and minds of the enemy while surrounded by the chaos and violence of war.
Amid generals, politicians and media celebrities, he soon finds he has too many competing masters, all guided by the same rudderless ship of political indecision in D.C. His only hope of escaping this insanity comes when a stunningly beautiful Red Cross administrator appears out of the blue and soon captures Burton’s heart.
Meanwhile he finds himself in a fight for his life from an unknow evil on the battlefield of asymmetric warfare. Who is stalking him in the streets of Saigon? Who can he trust? Who wants him dead? And what is he to do about his new beloved soul mate?