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Serving aboard the U.S.S. EL DORADO in San Diego shortly before the Gulf War, Petty Officer Cheevers becomes involved in a shipboard scandal that ruins his career. He's been blamed for inciting his shipmate, Seaman John Trout, into hanging himself in the ship's brig in Once Again.

Only Cheevers knows the real story that Seaman Trout experienced a past life vision of himself dying in a battle nearly 200 years previously. Although Cheevers explains these details to the ship's captain in an investigation, still resulting in a demotion and his dismissal from the ship in disgrace, he withholds the key information that has shattered his perception of reality.

Seaman Trout predicted Cheevers will die, too, in a trap set by fate that is impossible to escape. Cheevers learns that his life hangs in the balance of being able to circumvent destiny by proving his shipmate's prophesy wrong, and surviving the conflict that erupts in the Persian Gulf initiated by Saddam Hussein