The Terry Lloyd Vinson Collection

High school graduation night: Youth’s last stand before adulthood intervenes. You are cordially invited to spend the next twelve hours with the class of ’80, for a wild, magical and wholly unchecked night of thrills, spills and pathos, the equal of which they will never again experience.

As the war in Europe winds down, a unit of battle-fatigued GIs are tasked in liberating the survivors of the infamous Verurteilt concentration camp, in theory a relatively simple rescue mission. They thought the many and varied horrors of war held no more surprises. They were dead wrong.

Within the infinite blackness of rock ‘n roll purgatory, some encores are just the beginning.

The fortunate inherit riches, prestige, positive notoriety. Those not so lucky bear legacies filled with poverty, infamy or, worse yet, the unhinged insanity and murderous urges of their ancestors. Witness terrifying proof of the latter.

What price redemption? Air Force veteran Deron Barrow, alias TV war-movie host Ace Claymore, is fated to pay the highest possible fee imaginable.