December 1944. In the frozen hell of the Ardennes Forest, Lieutenant Elias Vance learns the one truth war reliably teaches: the man beside you in the foxhole is all that stands between you and the dark.
Home in Philadelphia, the soldiers who saved the country are met with overcrowded wards, broken radiators and a form to fill out. Elias, the “Iron Lieutenant,” will not accept it. Beside him are Evelyn Cross, the combat nurse who refuses to let a corrupt city throw away the men she stitched back together, and Julian Hayes, the silver-tongued strategist who survived a sniper’s bullet and a veterans’ psychiatric ward.
Their enemy wears a tailored suit. Arthur Sterling, the ward boss who built a machine over thirty years, profits from the very system that is failing the veterans. To beat him, Elias must carry his fight from the docks of South Philadelphia to the marble halls of Congress.
A novel about what America owes the men and women it sends into the dark, and about a friendship that survives everything else. The line is holding. Step into the fight.
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