Bandit Country is an action-packed thriller set in the claustrophobic jungles and warzone of South Vietnam during the 1960s and the violent concrete jungle that was 1970s New York City. Don Santarelli, a Brooklyn native, joins the United States Army in 1968 and serves a combat tour in Vietnam, where he is immersed in the bloody, terrifying and unrelenting horror of modern warfare. Following two more tours with the United States Army Special Forces, he returns home in 1973 to find a New York City vastly different to the one he'd left behind.