Jimmy's a door gunner with a taste for drugs and a talent for combat. He just wants to survive his year in 'Nam. From a longhaired killer guitar player in a psychedelic band, he's turned into a real killer in the gun platoon. It's bad enough when his friends die but back in the World, Gloria, his troubled musical savant girlfriend is in more danger. She can be Sunshine singing for her supper and dazzling music professors or the crowd at an antiwar rally with ease. But she doesn't like what she's learning about herself, and the secrets she and Jimmy know could kill them both. A trail of murders stretches from Detroit to Vietnam and the media thinks Jimmy and the U.S. Army massacred unarmed civilians. Beginning with the 1967 Detroit riot and moving to a heart-pounding conclusion during the 1968 Tet Offensive, Purple Sunshine explodes across the world with fast-paced action and unexpected twists.