Morwick & Nelson — Authors of The Volunteer
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.
“We are not bound by flag or soil, but by the man beside us when the world falls silent…” — Foreign Legion tradition (adapted)
About the Book
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.
About the Authors
Robert Nelson
Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy (Class of 1993), former Infantry Officer and Airborne Ranger. His writing fuses historical realism with human themes of loyalty, sacrifice, and redemption.
Jason Morwick
Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (Class of 1994) and fellow Airborne and Ranger School graduate. His work explores the psychology of teamwork, duty, and moral conflict under pressure.
Together, Nelson and Morwick bring authenticity and moral gravity to The Volunteer trilogy— an epic of brotherhood forged in war and tested across continents.
Press
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.
The Volunteer: Legio Patria Nostra - The Legion is our homeland.
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