Ambitious young reporter Martin Bass wants nothing more than a job at the New York Journal-Gazette. When his opportunity arrives, there’s a he has to find the paper’s star foreign correspondent—Lowell McGlynn, highly decorated veteran of the liberation of France—who’s currently on an epic bender somewhere in New York City. But finding him is the least of Bass’ troubles. In order to get McGlynn back to his post in Paris, he’ll have to protect the spiraling war hero from the gangster he’s crossed and the mistress he’s spurned. Most of all, Bass will have to out-maneuver McGlynn’s greatest enemy—Lowell McGlynn. Set in 1957, Hero of the Good War is a rollicking tale of old New York and Paris wrapped around a sobering portrait of combat’s forgotten its victor.