The day after PFC Albert Patty arrived in the mechanized infantry platoon, he became separated in the woods and was inadvertently left behind. His absence wasn’t noticed until that evening, when it was too late to go back for him. Before Patty could be rescued, he was captured by soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army and dragged away, heading for a prison camp in Cambodia. Lieutenant Carr was anxious to retrieve his missing man, but his efforts were hindered by senior officers worried about revealing a blunder that could threaten their careers. It became a race against time, with a platoon of American soldiers chasing a platoon of NVA, the GIs determined to catch the enemy before they reached sanctuary in a neutral country, and the NVA willing to fight to the death to keep their prisoner. The non-stop action of this story will grab your attention and not let it go until the final page.