Shocking, exhilarating, depraved, uplifting, Blood on Their Hands is an epic journey into the heart and soul of man - a place where every choice has a consequence; cross a line, pay the price!

A legal thriller with a difference, the story’s a rollercoaster ride from the jungles of Southeast Asia to a Los Angeles courtroom; it’s about cause and effect, choice and consequence, vengeance and justice.

Peel away the layers and ultimately, it’s about good versus evil. But in Blood on Their Hands, even the good is flawed! 

The story begins with the seemingly unrelated accounts of four very different, but very interesting men all going about their lives early in 2004. Rudi Kingsbridge, Eugene Sanders, Frankie Fernando and Michael McBride are American fifty-somethings, though there’s nothing “average” about any of them. They’re men with a past, a dark past, and thirty-two years earlier during the dying days of the Vietnam War, they’d been Bleeding Dog Company, a four-man super-elite Special Operations unit from the shadowy world of “black ops”.

Two of the four, Kingsbridge and McBride, form a pathological hatred for one another. Though both are young, fit, tough and trained killers, they couldn’t be more different; one is the grandson of a legend, the other, the last in a long-line of bastards. The conflict between the two undermines morale and eats away at the group’s identity and sense of team.

In June 1972 in southern Laos the Bleeding Dogs step over a line. On their last mission together, a stunningly beautiful girl is brutally raped, her mother is murdered and her grandmother seriously injured.

Though some are more guilty than others, all four men have blood on their hands; literally.

After swearing an oath of allegiance pledging to never again speak about what occurred, the team is decommissioned and the men go their separate ways. For arch

enemies McBride and Kingsbridge, there’s a deep sense of dissatisfaction; their unfinished business still to be resolved.

The years pass with each of the four handling his guilt his own way, all convinced it’s behind them. But it’s not over; in fact, it’s only just beginning.

Unbeknown to the men Bian Nhu Dinh their beautiful young victim, who’s now a mother of a Caucasian baby, makes the trek south fleeing the advancing North Vietnamese who will surely kill her as a collaborator once they see the baby. Her grandmother accompanies her and én route they meet a young American diplomat, Troy P. Templeman, who assumes the baby is the result of an affair with a G.I. With his help, they travel to Saigon. In April 1975, the city finds itself totally surrounded by the North Vietnamese Army and a large-scale evacuation is in progress. The young girl is forced to leave her aging grandmother behind in a tearful scene at the gates of the U.S. Embassy. The baby is her passport to America, the “Promised Land”, and the young diplomat, the girl and her baby are amongst the last to be allowed to depart the Embassy roof aboard the helicopters in Operation Frequent Wind.

Bian settles in the United States, eventually marrying the persistent young American but the trauma of the past is a dark shadow that won’t go away. Troy, now a successful corporate lawyer and a faithful father to her son, has absolutely no inkling of the truth of what really happened. After more than twenty-five years of frustration, he becomes increasingly bitter at what he sees as her inability to love him the way he wants to be loved. They separate and she decides that she must return “home”, to Laos. There she comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare as the memories locked away for so long, suddenly reach from her past all the way into her present.

Realising he can’t live without his wife, Troy goes after her and in a harrowing scene where she unloads the full truth of the traumatic experience that took place nearly thirty years earlier, the two are reconciled.

Although he hides it well, Troy Templeman aches for vengeance and wants those responsible brought to account. It consumes him and eventually, he persuades his wife to tell her story to Claudia Kaplan, editor of American Dream magazine, one of America’s best-selling national publications. Though the hard evidence is thin, Claudia believes Bian’s story and decides to run a speculative article that “throws a pebble into the water”.

The revelations kick-start what becomes a massive nationwide manhunt.

Despite the U.S. military’s complete denial of their existence, the men already labelled as war criminals, face disgrace, trial and imprisonment. Everyone’s talking about it; the spotlight couldn’t be more intense as the net slowly tightens around Bleeding Dog Company. One after another, each man’s identity is revealed; the fact one of the four is America’s most recent addition to the “Super-Rich” list creates a media feeding frenzy.

The realization is instant: the case of the People versus Fernando, Kingsbridge, McBride and Sanders is the big one, their trial guaranteed to be the biggest in U.S. legal history.

As the case against them gains irresistible momentum, the Bleeding Dogs meet up for the first time in thirty-two years, in Las Vegas.

It’s not a happy reunion! They were four men with nothing to celebrate.

Their trial grips the nation as never before. It’s broadcast live on network television and America and the rest of the world too, can’t get enough of it.

Three of the four defendants are represented by sharp-shooting defense attorney Ben Akerman and the chemistry with federal prosecutor Jade LaHoya makes for great TV and a gripping series of exchanges across the courtroom.

And just like before the renewed conflict between Kingsbridge and McBride acts as an undercurrent to proceedings. It’s as hostile as ever; three decades not diminishing the hatred they feel for one another one jot. Yes, it’s just like before, except there’s one key difference. This time it’s going to be settled once and for all . . . and a billion people are going to watch it happen, live on primetime TV.

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