American Warrior Author:James Snyder Growing up inside the life-and-soul-threatening slum called China Slough, eight-year-old Paul Brett dreams of escape. Of something more. That more comes when he is jumped one night by local thugs and rescued by a reclusive old Indo-Dutch immigrant named Draeger, a master of the devastating old-world martial art known as Pentjak Silat. From that ... more »moment, Paul's life is catapulted forward on a high-wire odyssey of love and war. Joining the Top-Secret Special Forces group known as SOG, he experiences a harrowing ordeal that leads to his desertion and eventual imprisonment inside the notorious military prison called the Castle.« less