For decades, China has been building up with designs for world domination….. The Free World has created a modern – day Frankenstein, the gravest threat to world peace since Nazi Germany; a heartless totalitarian regime specializing in organ harvesting, the severe persecution of religious minorities, and the brutal suppression of human rights and democracy activists in Hong Kong. Emboldened by the axis of evil formed with Iran and North Korea, China invades Taiwan, the spark which ignites World War III. The U.S. Marines make it crystal clear they don’t promise you a rose garden, and Mark Haines was under no illusions that life in the corps would consist solely of training as well as travel to exotic locales. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit departs from Okinawa to the war – ravaged island nation, thrusting Haines and his fellow green jarheads into gut – wrenching skirmishes against People’s Liberation Forces. Separated from their unit, the small band of brothers battles occupying Chinese troops and venomous snakes while trying to protect the Taiwanese president, who with her family has gone into hiding.