Amazon.com description: Product Description: Author Mark Vakkur was there, a graduate of West Point Military Academy, this gifted young writer brings to vivid life a secret world few have ever seen, a world of honor and betrayal, glory and cruelty, brilliance and arrogance, a world where the very survival of proud men and women becomes a matter of trust. Cocky new cadet John Waleski is waging his own horrific war at West Point. His adversary is sadistic upperclassman Clarence Wiggins. Their war soon exceeds the horrors of hazing and plunges them into a dark psychological pit from which neither will emerge unscathed.