Amazon.com description: Product Description: January 1970. Lieutenant Ross Blackwood is grieving for his distinguished father, Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Blackwood, who has been murdered in Cyprus. Ross is also disillusioned, believing there is no future for him in the Royal Marines, whose role has been diminished to policing and paperwork. But the loyalty and dedication of a Blackwood to the Corps sustain Ross from vicious guerrilla warfare in Malaysia, through the moral and political minefields of Northern Ireland, to the South Atlantic, and a conflict as bloody as it is unpredictable. And he learns, as every Blackwood has before him, that mere courage is not enough. Survival and victory balance on the knife edge of destiny.