As the United States enters World War II, military commanders send their best officers to set up an amphibious training camp on Florida's desolate Gulf Coast. Major Occam Goodwin anticipates challenges--swamps, snakes, alligators, hurricanes, the daunting task of turning twenty thousand green recruits into warriors. But when his surveyors discover a murdered black family deep in the forest, he must dance delicately around military politics, and a race war that threatens the entire war effort.
Here, in this harsh but mystically beautiful land, young recruits test themselves to the limit in love and combat; politicos and tycoons offer aid with one eye to profit; women patrol the coast on horseback, looking for German subs; a postmaster's daughter, the only child on base, inspires thousands; a determined woman bravely holds together her family and the emotional soul of the camp. Amid tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the soldiers and their country hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to find his destiny.
Based on the true story of Camp Gordon Johnston, this
epic tale is about young men on the brink of war and a country on the
brink of civil rights, a tale of soldiers and officers, daughters and
mothers, death and redemption, and a man unyielding in his integrity,
compassion, and struggle for justice.
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