Careless Enemies picks up three days after Against All Enemies ends. While on the way to Captain Tom Dunn's commanding officer's office, Dunn and his executive officer, Lieutenant Pete Ramsey, have a touching encounter with a South Korean civilian.
Their first mission is a simple reconnaissance patrol to find and destroy any North Korean Army units present in the target area. Except it isn't simple. After three hours behind the enemy's lines, a frustrated company takes a rest while Dunn devises a new plan. It's high risk. Will it work?
Blowing up a dam is not for the faint at heart. Fortunately, Dunn has some experience with this as in Raid On Hitler's Dam. The central problems is how does Dunn get his men back from a point seventy-seven miles north of the front line? His solution is as unique as he is.
The company is assigned to man a roadblock near headquarters and watch for enemy guerrillas, who have been crossing the line and creating havoc in the area. Also under their watchful eyes is a medical aid station. Problems begin almost immediately, and not all are from the enemy. Can the company stop the guerrillas and protect the medical aid station?
While on another reconnaissance mission, the company travels behind the enemy lines again to determine what units are present in Wolun-ri. Fighting snow and an unexpected enemy force, can Dunn lead the men to the city and complete the mission?
Traveling back to the American front line, Dunn and the company happen upon perhaps the greatest targets of opportunity they've yet seen in Korea. The difficulty is how, exactly, can they destroy all of the targets?
Later, Dunn appears on camera for a newsreel. Who will see this wonderful moment back in the United States? And what happens because of it?
Some old friends appear and update us on their civilian lives in early 1951.
In Careless Enemies, Munsterman continues to display just how important the United States' presence was to the South Koreans. Blending historical fact and fiction, he shows us Tom Dunn and his men in action. In his page-turning style, he gives us another compelling story of how courageous and determined men conduct the war with honor and dignity.
