They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina.

Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier—one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come.…

Griffin’s “writing enriched by new, fully developed characters…renders an intricately layered, epic novel of international politics.…” —Publishers Weekly