To win the war they needed a revolution.

Vietnam, 1967: In a milieu of sensuous mystery that could as easily be the 1930's as the 1960's, a Green Beret is pulled ever deeper into CIA-backed opium smuggling, a rogue revolution that could change the outcome of the war, and an intricate love triangle with the beautiful-but-deadly Tiger Lady and her young torch-singing lover--all the while struggling to understand a transcendent experience that overwhelms him during combat.