What Price Vengeance? This is the fast-paced, exciting and yet gut-wrenching story of a young Marine deployed to Vietnam. Boone has his own emotional battles from his experiences, but when his lifelong friend, Croc, is killed in an Army battle, Boone's attempts to make sense of his best friend's death set him on a path he doesn't foresee. The aftermath of a storied and celebrated American victory early in the war was a near disaster. The battle at LZ Albany, immortalized by the novel and movie "We Were Soldiers Once, and Young," was an unquestioned triumph for American troops. Afterward, though, the troops brought in to mop up and secure the area were sent marching into an uncertain area, to LZ X-Ray, which had not been scouted, with leadership that had not been properly briefed, after more than 48 hours of non-stop, exhausting work and sporadic fighting. More than 150 young men, including Croc, were lost in an ambush caused by failure of command. Even though the battalion once commanded by Custer emerged victorious, the heavy price and the embarrassment of the military brass caused LBJ's administration to cover it up. In trying to make sense of the story, Boone's path leads from Vietnam to the flower children of Haight Ashbury to the home of the man Boone finds responsible, Lyndon Baynes Johnson

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