Rave Review Review Book Club awards BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1970 and the story follows the two soldiers impressionable Detroit teenagers during their long night in a Listening Post LP some 400 meters beyond the bunker line of the new firebase. Their assignment as a ampampquothuman early warning systemampampquot is to listen for enemy activity and forewarn the base of any potential dangers. As they were new to the ampampquotIron Triangleampampquot and its reputation little did they know that units before them lost dozens of soldiers in this nightly highrisk task and referred to those assigned as ampampquotbait for the enemyampampquot and ampampquotsacrificial lambs.ampampquot As he sat in the pitchblack tropical jungle with visibility at less than two feet Johns imagination took hold throughout the agonizing night and at times transported him back to some of his most vivid childhood memories innocent but equally terrifying at the time.