World War II is over but the terror remains for one guilty officer stained with the blood of his own men...and stalked by an enemy obsessed with violent revenge. Only one other man knew the crimes of Philip Stevens... who had shot one of his own soldiers during a raid behind enemy lines in Africa, knowingly sent to other men straight into German fire, and faked his way out of battle into a hospital, where he perverted the tenderness of love-starved...