In the brutal fires of war, two men come together from different worlds. Joe Enders is a haunted warrior plagued by guilt, the only man to survive a terrifying bloodbath on the Tarawa Atoll. Ben Yahzee is a "codetalker," a gentle, proud Navajo who transmits secret military code created from his Native American tongue -- a language the Japanese enemy cannot decipher. One Marine fighting his demons and another battling prejudice and his own inner fears, their lives are joined in the most horrific hell of the war-torn Pacific.</p>