 Colonel Hale is ordered by the CIA s shining star, Bissell, to Miami to recruit a fighting force to overthrow Fidel Castro. Needing a Field Surgeon most of all, Hale agrees to Ortega s demand that his estranged son, Raffi, be his Second. But Raffi blames Ortega killing his mother and hates his father. However, over the course of their training, Hale, Ortega, Raffi and the other recruits become galvanized. When their freighter is sunk in the Bay of Pigs, and Kennedy reneges on his promise of air cover, the brigade engage in firefights with Castro s aircraft, PT Boats and the massive Militia force that is hunting them down. Only a handful of the men Hale recruited will survive...