(2 years before the events in the Outsiders ) Eighteen year old Darry Curtis has recently graduated from high school. There's no way he could afford college, and the streets are just to rough. So he signs up for the army and gets shipped off to Vietnam. In a battlefield jungle where every move can mean the difference between life and death, he meets Murr, Quincy, Nobel and Smithson They're all there for different reasons, but now share a single dream- getting out aliveAll Rights Reserved