A Would-Be Adventurist's Quest for Combat

This is John Veteran's third novel in which Dalton Henson is the protagonist. The first was a novel entitled Three Novels by Dalton Henson, published by Exposition Press in 1977. The second was the Friendly Stranger, published by Vantage Press in 2000. Dalton graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa in June 1965, with a degree in physical education. He was employed as a physical education teacher and athletic coach at a junior high school in Tampa during the 1965-1966 school year. On July 30, 1966, he turned twenty-four years old, and on September 14, he was inducted as a draftee into the US Army. After having a basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was ordered to report for duty at Fort Ord, California, on December 2.