"Robert Smith narrates a colourful anti-war story set in a village in the centre of the North Island, New Zealand, on the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962"--Back cover.

"Floyd F. Dickerson is a retired Chief Warrant Officer 2, from the US Army, and, who has spent twenty one years in military service. He has an Associate Degree in Business Management, and, an Associate Degree in Business Administration. Dickerson is married, with twenty one grandchildren, and, twenty great-grandchildren. He has written this book, which chronicles the bizzar, and, sometimes comical, adventures that happened to him during his private life, as well as, his military career life during his twenty one years of serving in both, the US Navy, and, US Army."

A busload of high school students crashes in bush in a remote part of Aotearoa New Zealand. Only a few of the teenagers survive; they find their phones don’t work, there’s no food, and they’ve only got their wits to keep them alive. There’s also something strange happening here. Why are the teenagers having nosebleeds and behaving erratically, and why is the rescue effort slow to arrive? To make it out, they have to discover what’s really going on and who or what is behind it all.