While hunting in the mountains outside of American-occupied Salzburg, Austria, shortly after the end of World War II, decorated US Army Sergeant Jacob "Jake" Wells discovers a crate buried in a cave. When he opens the crate, he unwittingly opens a Pandora's box that will have him fighting for his lifeand have his son questioning his integrity nearly seventy years later. Within hours of opening the crate, he and his best friend find themselves propelled into a world of danger greater and more personal than they faced while battling the German Army. In the rubble that had once been the Greater German Reich, the two Constabulary troopers are confronted with corrupt Army officials, black marketers, arms dealers, fugitive war criminals, and desperate Army investigators, and they have to fight for their very lives just to be able to return home.