It’s December 1972, and the last Christmas of the Vietnam War is here. When Lieutenant Minerva Zettler, a nurse at Queens Naval Hospital in Long Island, suspects that two recent deaths in the hospital were murders, she becomes a target of Hanoi-sponsored activist agents.
Newswoman Thule Thornbush, assigned to Queens Naval on Christmas Day, also sees signs of danger. Angling for a staff position at The New York Times, Thornbush is obsessed with spinning anti-war stories and investigating Vietnam activist anti-war sentiment at Queens.
Across the ocean, Hollywood movie star Iona Dell spends Christmas in Hanoi. She and her fans call for the end of the Vietnam War, and Ho Chi Minh calls for attacks on US Military Hospitals. She, too, feels impending doom will come to Queens Naval Hospital.
None of these women fully understands the terror targeting their hospital as North Vietnam prepares anti-war citizens to assault the hospitalized wounded soldiers on Christmas Day.
Author Peter Glassman 