American Patrol Author:Jack Bilello Chris Mercuri comes of age in a place where honor, patriotism and service are revered: The United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut. There he forms an unbreakable bond of friendship with other officer cadets. After enduring the Spartan rigors of academy life, Chris, a newly commissioned ensign, goes off to fight the war... more » against America's most dangerous enemy - Colombian cocaine. In doing so he learns that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. An act of monumental treachery and betrayal shatters his world. This young, patient man erupts in a fury of vengeance. Only then, can be begin to reassemble his broken world.« less