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Shaun Brunder is content to be a bright, talented but unfocused Southern California surf slacker until the day he discovers a novel by acclaimed author Martin Skinner. Inspire, he suddenly realizes his life's ambition to leave behind mind-numbing Orange County and study creative writing at Stanford University .
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When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...