The Nixon Project deals with the Vietnam War. It begins and ends in 1994, in Seattle, Washington, but most of the story takes place in flashbacks to the sixties and Vietnam.

In 1968, civilian military advisor and computer genius, Dr. Erwin Milhaus concocts a bizarre scheme to conduct experiments with a specially selected infantry company to supposedly test troop incompatibility.

He gets the go ahead to assemble this company of misfits in Camp Drum, N.Y., and then the troop, Charlie Company, is sent to Vietnam where they experience many bizarre and horrific traumas, some planned by Dr. Milhaus himself as part of the experiment.

The troops come home from the war and begin dying off, just as Milhaus had planned, until finally, in 1994, there is only one survivor, Sebastian Manifesto. The tables are turned on evil Dr. Milhaus, his crimes are exposed, and Sebastian Manifesto receives the Congressional Medal of Honor.

John Reid was born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1947. He served three years in the U.S. Army, including a one-year tour of Vietnam.

John Reid attended college in Gainesville, Florida. He has worked as a school teacher, operated a yard service, and is presently employed in market research.

Emerging from the protection of the tree, McCord and Manifesto opened fire on the gooks with their M-16's. The NVA WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE. All twenty of the enemy began to scream and then drop. With smoke oozing from their weapons, both men pulled out and tossed away their spent clip, jamming in new ones to replace them. all twenty of the NVA lay at their feet, all but a few were dead.

Several of the survivors looked up at McCord and Manifesto with shock, wondering where they had even come from. One of the Vietnamese, the same one who had been shooting the wounded with his pistol, was still alive. He looked up at Manifesto, his dark eyes seeming to plead for his own life. Manifesto looked down at him, and then shot him in the face, the Oriental features disentegrating before his eyes.

"Sorry about that," Manifesto commented without emotion.

"We'd like to stay and help you boys," Top addressed the wounded survivors, "But me and Manifesto here have got us a war to win. We'll send the medics over here just as soon as we can."

"Kill one for me, Top Soldier, gasped the wounded Mitchell, his dark bare torso covered with blood.

"C'mon, Manifesto," McCord addressed Sebastian directly, "Let's you and me go kill us a few of these slanteyed