When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer then-Captain Ben Marco was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital Shaw eventually becomes a vice presidential nominee while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened or didn''t happen in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates the story begins to unravel to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.