In his new historical epic, the prequel to The Man who Walked out of Isabelle, J. C. Bourg explores the receding tide of the Second World War and the new world order that surfaces. His detailed research takes you back to the various theaters of that conflict and the swelling Asian communist insurgence.

In the waning days of World War II, seventeen-year-old Max Kohl, a German in the 12th Panzer Division, became a soldier without a country. French Holocaust survivor Jean Guillian existed to avenge his family’s demise. Pacific island hopping Marine Lieutenant Tom Roche realized he can never go home. And Free France’s attempt to reclaim its Indochina colonies turned Hmong tribesman Moua Loc’s world into a battlefield. Quest stimulated in the aftermath of the global conflict, sends the unlikely quartet on separate odysseys toward the crossroads of the First Indochina War.