Stockade: A Novel

373 pp. "Ed Remington, the central figure, is an Army draftee during the Korean crisis who goes about the business of soldiering by keeping his nose clean and minding his own business. If he has a creed it is the vague, passive one of live and let live. This formula for survival--for it is that more than a positive outlook or creed--is not really put to the test until he is assigned a burdensome but seemingly innocuous forty-eight-hour duty in the prison stockade."--jacket