In 1944 Captain Ryan McCown, a dashing young Marine aviator assigned to the USS Nassau, was shot down over the jungles of Papua New Guinea. McCown's diaries and letters home to his family and fiancee provide a moving, powerful portrait of the fears and costs of a very different war and underscore the pathos of the ultimate cost of duty. Sixty years later, Major George Eyster V, disillusioned and questioning the value of his service after his tour of duty in Iraq, was making plans to end his army career when he was offered a posting to the elite J-PAC division. J-PAC's sole mission is to fulfill a solemn promise at the heart of the military code: bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. Eyster and his J-PAC team head deep into the sweltering interior of New Guinea in search of McCown's remains. It proves to be a fraught mission, complete with tropical diseases and black magic, at the end of which Eyster would not only repatriate a fallen veteran...
