In August 1945 JACK VANBORN and HUGH STANFIELD have a date for a bloodbath: the invasion of Japan. En route their reservation is cancelled by the atomic bombs that end WWII. Awaiting repatriation, physician aspirant Stanfield gains an introduction to medicine. VanBorn is discharged in Manila, narrowly escapes assassination and seizes a share of the postwar construction boom. Back in the U.S. VanBorn, becomes a real estate developer. Stanfield...