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The Volunteer
A story of what remains when war ends—and what it takes for a man to live with what he has done, and what he has failed to do. Set against the French Foreign Legion and the crucible of Indochina, vengeance collides with brotherhood, and mercy becomes a kind of exile.
About The Authors
Robert Nelson
Robert Nelson is a former U.S. Army Infantry Officer, Airborne-qualified and a Ranger School graduate, as well as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. His military service informs a writing style grounded in realism, ethical complexity, and the psychological cost of command. His work explores identity, loyalty, and the burden of decisions made under fire.
Jason Morwick is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and also Airborne- and Ranger-qualified. After his military career, he transitioned into senior leadership roles in global business, bringing a deep understanding of trust, accountability, and decision-making under extreme pressure.
Their collaboration is rooted in shared experience rather than abstraction. Together, they write about soldiers as men first: flawed, conflicted, and bound by loyalty rather than slogans. The Volunteer reflects their commitment to honoring service without glorifying violence, and to portraying war as it is lived, remembered, and carried forward.
About The Authors
Jason Morwick
Jason Morwick and Robert Nelson are former U.S. Army officers whose friendship began early in their military careers. Both are graduates of elite American service academies and Ranger School, and both carried the lessons of leadership, loyalty, and moral consequence far beyond their time in uniform.
Their writing is shaped not by nostalgia or spectacle, but by lived experience—by the quiet truths of brotherhood under pressure, the weight of command, and the lasting cost of war on those who endure. Together, they bring a disciplined, unsentimental voice to historical military fiction, focused less on victory than on what remains afterward.
The Volunteer is their first novel and the opening volume of a planned trilogy.
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The Volunteer
The Volunteer is not a story about war alone. It is about what remains when the war ends— and what it takes for a man to live with what he has done, and what he has failed to do.
The French Foreign Legion was built for men like Hans Sterling—soldiers without flags, drifters, fugitives, or idealists who sought to bury their past beneath a new name and a white kepi. The Legion makes no moral distinction; it asks only for obedience, endurance, and loyalty to the man beside you.
In Indochina, those loyalties are tested where the jungle devours certainty and honor becomes fragile currency. Hans joins not to serve France, but to find the man who destroyed his family—now hiding in plain sight beneath the same banner. What begins as vengeance becomes a reckoning between two men shaped by the world—and by what they once were.
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Logline: In the French Foreign Legion, a man hunting the SS officer who murdered his family discovers the cost of vengeance—and the higher cost of mercy—when brotherhood and conscience collide in Indochina.
Available on request: cover images, author headshots, backgrounder on Legion tradition, and a short excerpt package for reviewers.
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The Volunteer
Discover The Volunteer, a haunting journey through loss, loyalty, and vengeance; where brotherhood offers refuge, memory demands reckoning, and survival is only the beginning of the war within.
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