Behold the Fire

Thriller surrounding a POW/MIA emerging from Southeast Asia.

Amazingly, first-time thriller writer Steven D. Salinger finds something new to say about the Vietnam War and its effects on the American soul in this strong, touching story about two very different GIs still "in country" 25 years later. Colonel Everett Ransom, found badly wounded in the jungle, is restored to health by former POW Zack Johnson, who is living with a Vietnamese woman and working as a village doctor. Ransom engaged in some questionable activity for an American defense contractor called Parker Global, whose employees in Manhattan are being killed off in ways familiar to soldiers who served in Southeast Asia. Two NYPD homicide detectives, coyly named Barton and Fink, delve into the mystery stateside, while Ransom tries to protect Johnson and his girlfriend from the many people who would like to see them dead.