A young soldier is killed during the incursion into Cambodia during the Vietnam War, but when his body is shipped home to Brooklyn, New York and his family asks to view the body, the coffin is empty, This mystery plunges Captain Alan Fein of the United States Army into the boiling cauldron that was Vietnam. From Cambodia to Da Nang, from Wahington D.C. to Louisiana, Fein circles the globe in search of the truth while finding himself in the midst of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. He encounters heroism, commitment and the brotherhood of warriors as he unravels a mystery that could have awful repercussions for the American military.