Gold-Hatted, High-Bouncing Lover

Sol too is on a quest, though more as a reluctant and cynical mercenary. He has been enlisted by his fanatic grandmother in a search for Nazis hiding in Australia. Coredale and Sol connect again in Sydney, Coredale having been urgently shipped there from Saigon after being wounded in a helicopter accident.

These two young very different men and the girl who comes to figure in Coredale's life are lost, alien souls. Mistakenly they all become subject to the investigation of the US secret services, personified by a bible besotted, drunk, psychopath, who is "licensed" to kill. A ruthless friend by the name of Jeb. Two of the three will die.