A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
