It was 1987, somewhere in West Germany, I was in the Army and we were on a Reforger exercise. The USO or some organization handed out books to read. I pick up this one and then read it multiple times over the years.
It was about a solider who came of from Vietnam and knew he couldn't stay so he joined to foreign legion and then became a mercenary, he was wounded and while in hospital he found out his mom had died and the family needed him back home. He went home and things were strange in his farm community, lots of paranoia about the government and a group that was trying to take over. he ended up fighting to save his own town.
The over was a head shot of a soldier wearing an old steel pot helmet and a gas mask.
by davemartin82