Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him.
From the steamy streets of New Orleans.
There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
To escape the wrath of the young girl\'s father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir--the defining moment of the Korean War.
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him