Fighter pilot cousins Jason and Peter, meet as enemies in the skies over Europe. Their friend David - an Ojibwa tail gunner - is shot down over Germany, and is relentlessly pursued by Roland, a committed Nazi. He is also sought by Peter, whose parents have recently been killed in an allied air raid. Jason's younger brother Jack commands a Sherman tank of the 8th New Brunswick Hussars on the Western Front, bedding women and eventually becoming witness to horrific atrocity. Previously, during a canoe trip on Lake Superior (Gitchigumi) in 1938, Peter and his cousins were taken by David to visit the ancient mystical pictographs at Agawa Bay. The four boys go through a life-threatening experience, which may later influence their actions when a confluence of harrowing events brings them all together again, to clash on a battlefield in Holland.The book is accurate in its historical chronology, locations, and technical details. The story contains both real characters portrayed with historical accuracy, and interesting main characters created by the author, who drive the narrative at an ever increasing pace toward its exciting conclusion. Readers of historical fiction who enjoy the technical accuracy of writers like Len Deighton or Patrick O'Brian will enjoy this book.