This generational saga follows three friends from Kansas City who serve in different ways in harrowing World War II adventues: First Lieutenant John Brown, Private Charlie Miller and Second Lieutenant Mike Scanlon. Mike falls in love with a young French Resistance member, Anne-Marie Gerard, and their daughter Catherine marries John Brown's son. When Catherine's husband is MIA after his plane is shot down in Vietnam, she follows the instructions he sent before disappearing, which take her to Saigon and contact with a mysterious renegade named Cain. Publishers Weekly described Once a Warrior as "an enduring love story against a background of war" that "effectively drive(s) home the novel's concern with the wasteful loss of human life." Generational saga by Fran Baker; originally published by Delphi Books