Chapter 1 - Trauma Assessment

In the aftermath of an unsuccessful secret rescue operation in the Indonesian jungle, two surviving soldiers from the Australian Army's special operations group are rescued - and, arriving at Stratford Hill military base, they seem to be on the edge of sanity.
When Burns, one of the surviving soldiers, insists that he targeted Death itself during the ambush, the commander of the base, Colonel Dubken, calls in Nicole, a young psychologist specializing in post-trauma recovery, for help. But their investigation enters ominous grounds when Awaba, the other survivor, though mortally wounded, seems to not die at all - and as increasingly strange events and a terrorizing mood overtake the military base, Dubken and Nicole begin to wonder whether Burns is indeed right...