Four Americans—a twenty-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless U.S. senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress—are inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from poverty-stricken slums through the opulence of 1917–1918 Washington, London, and Paris and, climactically, into the Western Front's vicious aerial combat, which establishes the matrix for all air warfare to come.

JACK D. HUNTER has written numerous novels while working as a journalist and serving in military and corporate sectors. Two of his novels were made into motion pictures, and another, The Expendable Spy, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award of the Mystery Writers of America. He often bases his novels on his experiences as a U.S. counterintelligence agent in World War II.