Death by a thousand cuts. The investigators probing the brutal murder of the Air Force Chief of Staff know that the Generals death had been precipitated by a particular gruesome act of Vietcong torture. Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Jensen, the officer assigned to the case, discovers that the General's death is only one link with a chain of hideous crimes, beginning with closely guarded secrets of the Vietnam War and extending now to the highest levels of the U.S. government. With lives and careers - and history - in the balance, Jensen is caught between blind allegiance to authority and a nobler, higher patriotism. His path to the truth is sewn with mines - and the answers he is seeking have shocking consequences.
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