The Washington Greys are ordered to a small West African nation that has been invaded by insane dictator Generalissimo Modibo's armies. Carlson and the Warbot warriors have to fight tough terrain and a combined army of desperate African soldiers and mercenaries to rescue American hostages and free the war-torn country--or suffer the consequences of total global war.
George Harry Stine attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. Upon his graduation he went to work at White Sands Proving Grounds, first as a civilian scientist and then, from 1955–1957, at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility as head of the Range Operations Division.
Stine and his wife Barbara were friends of author Robert A. Heinlein, who sponsored their wedding, as Harry's parents were dead and Barbara's mother too ill to travel. Several of Heinlein's books are dedicated one or both of them, most particularly Have Space Suit - Will Travel. Stine also wrote science articles for Popular Mechanix.