“The military protagonist leaves hiscareer not knowing where to turn or in who he can place his trust. He’sessentially tangled in a double-cross, amid the backstabbing from the highestlevels of government to the lowest level of a brutal invisible ongoing war,where evil men recognize the boundaries of greed and humanness.”While this is of course fiction, Olivares’ narrative pays homage to themillions of American men and woman who are just like his protagonist. “A huge cultural shift took place in the fifties, right after the Korean Warended in 1953, and many young men no longer felt like they had a place insociety. Many went to the Korean conflict, and their children went to Vietnam.My narrative encapsulates their stories and demonstrates how their experiencesin Asia shaped them for the rest of their lives.”