[1] The story concerned a former American pilot who fakes his death and goes on the run in the 1950s.

Chaykin intended it as a "left-wing version of Steve Canyon",[2] and wrote all of the issues.

Harry Block, a World War II veteran, fakes his own death and makes his way to Central America to create a new identity for himself as Harry Kraft, a hard-drinking smuggler.

During a war in Guatemala, a CIA operative blackmails Block into assassinating Rosa de Santiis, a popular leader in opposition to the CIA puppet dictator General Zavala.

Afterward, he heads back to the United States, taking a road trip from Hollywood to Chicago to New York, exploring myriad avenues of 1950s American culture.