Mission Octagon — Ken Smith

A top secret World War II mission goes horribly wrong. Years later, an innocent ten-year-old boy is swept up in the aftermath and plunged headlong into an increasingly dangerous odyssey. So begins his desperate twenty-year struggle to unravel the secret of Mission Octagon.

As Kevin "Smitty" Smith comes of age in the turbulent '60s, he begins to understand that someone is trying to prevent him from learning the truth about Mission Octagon. Friends are injured. People he loves are killed. And as he gets closer to uncovering the secret, he no longer knows who he can trust.

Woven into Ken Smith's first espionage novel are the explosive issues of the '60s and early '70s -- racial tension, the Vietnam War, political malfeasance -- and the universal theme of the often volatile relationships between fathers and sons.