Operating Base Cornucopia: a 300-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment. Among them Private Toby Durrant, a self-described nobody. Then a deadly ambush sets off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy. Insurgents gathering in the nearby hills, a secretive member of military intelligence, an abandoned toy factory and a mysterious, half feral child. Durrant must decipher the links between them if he is to survive.