It's 1988, and secrets that were buried in the jungles of Vietnam twenty years earlier are starting to re-emerge.

David "Kick" Tacker is a Canadian-born-but American-made-stone-cold killer, and is barely holding his psyche together; shattered by years of war and violence. He fought in MACV-SOG's secret war in Vietnam until there was no more war to be made, and then sustained himself with clandestine work around the world.

Now living in Vancouver, Kick has one goal holding him together: to finally expose Canada's covert involvement in the Vietnam War before those dark secrets are hidden forever.

With the help a local reporter and his Agency handlers, Kick races to make the story public, all while being pursued by a mysterious assassin and their team.

The War Machine takes us from the savage jungles of the Vietnam War to its explosive climax in the seedy back streets of Vancouver, where Kick will either get the story to print, or die in the battle to expose the truth.