This is the story of Skip Sands, a PSYOP spy operating in Vietnam, and all the misfortunes that await him because of Skip's famous uncle, a war veteran known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. And this is the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, whom fate brought from the Arizona desert to war, where the line between misinformation and insanity has completely blurred and it is almost impossible to separate truth from illusion. This is a story of secret organizations, jungle madness and endless loneliness, unlike anything in modern American literature.