Atom-Age Combat #4

Private John Pickett Dawes arrives at the Korean front full of swagger and Confederate pride, ready to prove himself—but when enemy bugles sound the first charge, his courage crumbles and he freezes in terror. Now, with his unit holding a desperate position against wave after wave of Red troops, Dawes must find a way to overcome the paralyzing fear that's threatening both his honor and his platoon's survival.

A ring of escaped war criminals assembles an H-bomb in Panama and sets out by boat to deliver it to Washington, D.C.—but Security Patrolman Frank Kendall picks up their radioactive cargo on radar and moves to stop them before the deadly weapon reaches the Capitol. With only an hour before detonation, Kendall must track down the saboteurs along the Potomac River and prevent disaster.

When an eager young replacement named Jim French joins the battle-weary Marines of Company C, his hunger for combat clashes with Sergeant Haynes's hard-won experience—a tension that explodes during a routine patrol behind enemy lines. French's recklessness and hunger for glory put both men in the crosshairs of enemy fire, forcing Haynes to make a choice between leaving the kid to his own devices and risking everything to bring him back alive. "Replacement" is a raw look at how war tests not just soldiers' courage, but their judgment and loyalty.