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Dan Johnsen grows up in the old mining town of Butte, Montana. His immigrant grandfather, Big Dan Bogojevic, becomes not only his childhood hero, but the first and lasting influence in his life. Big Dan was not only a miner and two-fisted legend in Butte, but also a self-educated man. His greatest hope for his grandson was that he learns not how to use his fists but how to live by a code of right and wrong that Big Dan learned in the cowboy world of old Montana.

Dan Johnsen survives one tour in Vietnam. Like all war veterans fresh from seeing the carnage of war he hungers to find his place in society that will erase the chaos he’s witnessed. He meets a beautiful and independent woman who offers him love. Still restless, he nostalgically returns to his hometown, Butte, Montana. But nothing there helps him erase the memory of the chaos of Vietnam. Instinctively he seeks out the first love of his life, a woman he knew as a soldier in West Germany. He expects rejection, but instead finds a woman who leads him to a mysterious spiritual healing.

If the word classic still has meaning, then this novel is a classic. This first novel of Roger Burke’s, perhaps more than any of his other novels, is proof why many critics claim he deserves to be included in the same breath as Hemingway, Steinbeck and Orwell. Written in 1971, it was considered “too hot to handle” and politically incorrect for the times. But today it is proof that the best of writers and books survive political intrigues and censors. Book lovers everywhere will rejoice that writer and book survived to speak to a new generation.