pA long-forgotten jungle campaign takes on new life in the troubled mind of John Spenser, a missing soldier's son. ppbrppDetermined to restore the reputation of the scape-goated general who led the campaign, Spenser comes across a figure large enough to fill the shoes of his absent father. ppbrppOut of the distant past, that missing soldier shows up hoping to heal old wounds, a homecoming that does not end well - for him, his son, or the woman he left behind. ppbrppemIt's not every day that I read a story about a man on the run with his recently deceased wife's ashes on the shotgun seat of a rental car, but Tom Doherty's swift, engrossing novel about a guy for whom life has proceeded mostly without complications - until he finds himself reckoning with his own damaging history - is a page-turner with the feel of an instant classic. emppbrpp-- Susanna Daniel, author of the PEN award winning novel, strongSTILTSVILLEstrong. ppbrppemWith one master-stroke after another, Thomas Doherty paint