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