Window Pains is a novel of a Vietnam Vet who faces challenges and obstacles unlike those he confronted in the war. Alain Brettke must deal with difficult co-workers, store politics, and how to accept that his ideal woman is engaged to someone else, someone with better prospects than his. Confused and uncertain, he changes his dreams and his thinking to survive his post-traumatic stress and to help friends in desperate need of his assistance. When a violent act shatters his world, Alain fights to make things right and to discover his role in the turbulent 1970s.