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American soldier Robert Jackson joined the army to earn tuition for college; he wanted only to settle down with his high school sweetheart and start a family. He came to Bosnia to help the U.N. forces keep the peace - only to find that there was no peace to keep. The U.N. arms embargo has left the Muslims defenseless against attacks by Serbs, the Muslim-Croat alliance is shaky at best, and the Serbs are slowly but surely "cleansing" every town in northern Bosnia of Muslims and Croats - leaving a horrifying death toll in their wake. Frustrated by his inability to actually help the Bosnian people, Jackson begins running guns with a band of Muslim students. He is soon caught by the U.N. troops, and runs off with his young cohorts to avoid a court martial - losing forever his dream of peace and prosperity with his love.
"Colonel" Samuel West is sent to Jackson by a trusted benefactor with a mission that West says could "end the war." He needs only for Jackson to lead him through dangerous northern territory - and that's where their hellish adventure begins. Stopping for supplies in the wrong town at the wrong time leaves Jackson and West prisoners of the Serbian Chetniks - and starts them on a terrifying journey. Amid the senseless brutality of a Serbian concentration camp, Jackson befriends a young Muslim woman named Sabina - and realizes his only hope of seeing his family or girlfriend again is to somehow escape.
But escape is impossible, as Sabina knows all too well. Beyond the barbed wire of the camp fences lie more barriers - and a changed world where your former best friend may just be the one to cut your throat. Each hour brings the last cities held by Muslims and Croats closer to falling, and the refugees who managed to escape from them have seen enough horror and bloodshed to leave them forever changed. Jackson and Sabina must use all of their wits and courage to bring them out of war-torn Bosnia - and deliver them to the relative heaven of the peaceful West.
