French Foreign Legion; Legionnaire Donovan 'Mac' Mackay; 1964-1969 Early 1964; The seventeen year old mercenary, Donovan 'Mac' Mackay, completes his contract in the Congo (Congo 63) and begins a new life in Southern France with Lily O'Hare. They invest in Lily's dream of owning a hotel. While Lily is building a new life for them, Mac joins the Legion as he would be entitled to French citizenship upon completion of his contract. Although far away from the Congo, Mac is not free from his past. During two brutal covert missions into North Vietnam he encounters a KGB agent, Petrovitch, whom he had first met the Congo and Mac's dreams of leaving the military life behind him are torn apart forever.