It is Memorial Day weekend, 1975. Far removed from his death-defying battlefield experiences on Iwo Jima and post-war Marine Corps occupation of China, Bill "Reddog" Olson is now a successful engineer anticipating a holiday in the sleepy beach town of Belmont Shore, California. Unknown to Olson, a letter would summon once familiar ghosts and trigger a new episode of post-traumatic stress, not least the long-buried secret of killing a prominent colonel in Mao's insurgent army. Wartime reflections will fray his resolve to secure a professional opportunity to return to China in a U.S. government...