Who could imagine that a secret from the Vietnam War would trigger an assault on American soil four decades later? Probably no one, until former Ranger Buddy Carter penned a deathbed letter blaming black marketeers--an American and a South Vietnamese--for putting two U.S. Army Ranger teams in the enemy's path. Four Rangers were killed, the rest wounded, and at least one mentally scarred for life. In a flamboyant CIA operative turned college professor and a South African mercenary, the surviving Rangers find the men they hope will launch a daring plan to avenge their brothers lost so many years ago in a land so far away. Such missions rarely go exactly as planned, and this one is no exception as it winds its way through the Carolinas toward a deadly and unexpected conclusion.