Swep Culhane — J.D. Harkleroad

As WWII nears its searing climax, Navy fighter pilot Swep Culhane returns to his home in Utah on medical furlough. His homecoming defeats expectations -- he loses his wife, his ranch, and a year of his life thanks to draft dodger Hayden Prendregast. But Prendregast is a small potato in a much larger stew of wartime black marketeering and ration-stamp counterfeiting that extends far beyond the confines of Utah. Swep has to sort out who is friend and who is foe. The one person -- other than Dove Cordier -- that he can count on is a local sheriff -- or can he?