The stench from the dead rose from the trail in an almost visible fog. Special forces patrol leader Anthony Fetterman had encountered scenes like this before in Vietnam. In front of him were the bodies of a missing ARVN patrol, massacred by a Vietcong force directed by a Chinese general from a base in Cambodia.

When the Special Forces squad gets caught up in a CIA operation to assassinate the Chinese commander, they find themselves the target of a careerminded Army general who presses ahead with charges of murdering a foreign national in a neutral country.

For an American newspaper correspondent in Vietnam, it's the story of a lifetime. And with the CIA adopting a "we don't know you" attitude, the squad leader finds himself fighting the Army, the press and time to save his men from being court-martialed for doing the job they were trained to do.

VIETNAM: GROUND ZERO—fiction drawn from fact that brings the ten thousand day war home as never before!