A former Buffalo soldier and WWI veteran escorts an OSS officer on a journey through Turkey and the Near East in the late Spring and early Summer of 1944. Set in WWII Istanbul as well as Eastern Turkey, Russian-occupied Iran, and the border with Armenia, Preston Ferguson intermingles his life story with the ever-shifting political landscape being shaped by the imminent defeat of Nazi Germany. Deeply researched, this novel attempts to mesh a fictional character into the true political landscape that shaped domestic and foreign policies of the United States in the first half of the 20th Century.