When his army unit was ambushed during the firt Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldier just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconcious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begin to unravel, to the point where he question if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

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