BASED ON A TRUE ACCOUNT
April 1951. A live nuclear bomb sits in a North Korean sandbar-a rogue drop by General Douglas MacArthur that could ignite World War III. Eighteen-year-old Curt Conrad and four other men volunteer to parachute behind enemy lines to defuse it. His orders are clear: if captured, you do not exist. When the mission goes brutally sideways, Curt must survive a harrowing communist prison camp where silence is his only currency to stay alive.
Accidently rescued and badly wounded, Curt is nursed back to life by Misun, a fierce sixteen-year-old South Korean girl. In the small fishing village, they forge an undeniable love shadowed by the inevitable march of war. When the military reclaims him, Curt leaves behind his class ring and Misun promises: At the end of hardship comes happiness.
But a final betrayal waits at home. To bury the nuclear secret, military intelligence uses brutal conditioning to erase Curt's identity-and his memories of Misun. Decades later in Colorado, a chance discovery unearths fragments of his forgotten mission. Hunted by those who want him silenced, Curt must reclaim his mind and break the silence on a secret that reveals why President Truman recalled General MacArthur.
A sweeping historical thriller.
