"From a foxhole on Guadalcanal to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the ’40s, Nate Heller fights to block his memories. What he can’t block, though, is the wound he received -- the million-dollar wound, the one that got him home. But he discovers the home front is every bit as violent as the war-torn Pacific. Back in Chicago, Heller becomes involved with gangland attempts to take over the movie unions and is haunted by the death of a friend in Guadalcanal."