This book is about a young man growing up with his mother. He is the All-American boy. The boy everyone wishes he was. He joins the US Navy and is stationed aboard an Aircraft Carrier. His first job on the Carrier is handling planes, it isn't long before he is promoted to flight deck director. His name is Tim. While working the flight deck of the Carrier he is asked to train some of the men working with him in the Martial Arts. Tim is an expert in this field. Part of his job on deck is to make shuttle missions into Nam. He is on one of these missions and he is shot down. He is the lone survivor of the crash. Tim is trying to get back to the American lines and safety. During this time Tim is being tracked by the enemy. He kills quite a few of the enemy before he is finally caught and sent to a prison camp. While in this prison camp he is tortured by the enemy. This goes on for years then Tim meets a South Vietnamese Capt. whose name is Nge. They become good friends and they manage to escape from the prison camp and go on a killing rampage in Vietnam. Tim is fighting in the jungle well after the war ends. He finally escapes and is brought back to the United States where he is honored has a hero. The reason he came out of Nam is he is looking for Major Tran. The CIA helped him to get into this country to deal in drugs by renegade CIA Agents. Tim has sworn to kill this Major Tran and while in the States he goes on another killing spree with a FBI agent that is assigned to protect him.