America is fighting back after the devastation of Pearl Harbor. Round one will focus on the south Solomon Islands. The troopship James. F. Bridger is transporting seven thousand Marines toward the pivotal battle for the island of Guadalcanal. But one after another, Bridger’s Marines are winding up dead. Enter small-town lawyer and Navy reservist Jonas Pratt, who finds and stops his ship’s killer. It will take a manhunt that only ends in the trenches and fighting holes of America’s opening land battle of the Pacific war.