ESCAPE FROM THE PENTAGON
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After a few moments, Schreiner began rubbing his Monte Blanc pen against his forehead, a sure sign that he was about to speak He cleared his throat. "What we plan for this session, maybe our last, is our concept of getting you out of the bilge with a semblance of..." he paused and looked at the others. "Dignity," he finished. "Colonel, you understand that we could interpret your actions as aiding and abetting espionage against the United States?" Abruptly Mitchell spoke and my jaw dropped. "Were it not for your coming to us and your cooperation thus far, you might be standing in front of a federal district court somewhere in the Commonwealth of Virginia. "But here you are. Still wearing your uniform. Still drawing your pay.Continuing your work. Free to come and go." Suddenly the room seemed overheated. I uncrossed my legs in anticipation of what was coming next. "We have a proposal for you, Colonel." This time it was Sue Reevers who spoke.
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Following their helicopter evacuation during the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge communists, Sam Bristol and his bride, Beth, returned home to the United States. Following an excruciating illness, Beth dies, leaving Bristol a sad, disgruntled Army colonel assigned to a sensitive position in the Pentagon. Sam’s work, particularly his writing a highly classified nuclear manual, makes him the prime target of several foreign attempts, led by two voluptuous females, to filch the manual from the distraught widower. Sam is duped, eventually realizing the depth of his near-treasonous dilemma, and asks for agency assistance to extricate him. How the agency plan enables his escape from the Pentagon--requiring vast personal changes in Sam--and an awesome climax vastly different from his previous flight from Phnom Penh. Can he ever revert to his old self after this latest escape?
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a retired Army officer and State: Department foreign service officer, he now dabbles in history and memories of past assignments.