Robert Thorneburg worried, like many young American men, that he would never return from the Vietnam war. But after establishing a profound link with his assigned German Shepherd, Nemo, his prospects of surviving are rising. In early December, weeks before the Tet Offensive, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year Festival, the Strategic Fighter Wing hangared in Tan Son Nut airbase is threatened by Vietnamese infiltrators. Can Nemo protect his master, and the SFW from a vengeful Viet Cong soldier woman?