Frank Money is an angry, broken veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and taker her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood...

"Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. Her headline-making exploits earned her a reputation...

When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, he is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel.

Ten years after Griffin Gilkyson dies in a car accident, his widow Jean returns to their small hometown in Wyoming to rescue their child and herself from the latest in a string of abusive boyfriends. Refuge, however, comes at a cost: facing the wrath of a father-in-law who blames Jean for the death of his beloved son.

"...Hackberry Holland makes his first appearance in this early gem...Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney yields to the myriad of urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat--and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers. And when Hack attempts to overturn an old army buddy's conviction, and crosses...