Trauma Hunts Archie from Afghanistan to America to Canada
All-American Archie enlists in the US Army on his eighteenth birthday. It's his chance to leave his family and make himself into the real man his father hounds him to be. Archie's only regret: leaving Pawpaw, his grandfather, behind. But Archie doesn't know Pawpaw has readied himself for this day. Pawpaw has his trusted companion, his Smith & Wesson Outdoorsman, to help him, and he gives it to Archie as his final good-bye present.
Now alone in the world, Archie discovers the Army in Afghanistan isn't what they promised. Blown-up bodies and killing old men barge into his waking mind, settling in alongside his father's sneers and his twin's derision. Archie leaves the Army and flees the USA in search of redemption. His Canadian brothers and sister in arms welcome him. But he takes along Pawpaw's trusted companion and his own Sig Sauer for backup. Guns never let a man down. Will Archie find freedom from his...