Thommo returns from Vietnam to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes.  He begins to develop all sorts of physical and mental problems and thinks it must only be him until he finds ten mates, the remainder of his platoon who fought at Long Tan, all affected in the same way.  Now Thommo and his mates are eleven angry men out for revenge. They rope in an ex-Viet Cong with special skills’ and his own secret agenda.  They’re the ‘Dirty Dozen’, just like the movie – only it’s real life, and they’re all so screwed up they couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag. Enter Wendy, a woman of character whose infant daughter is dying and needs a bone marrow transplant.  Hell hath no fury – as she sets out to mould the ex-jungle fighters into a unit that will fight for justice, by fair means or foul.