This
page provides facts and synopsis for A Debt of Honor,
a mystery/suspense thriller by Robert A. Gallinger.
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Debt of Honor
Facts:
Fiction: Mystery/Suspense thriller
ISBN059521097X
Writers
Club Press (Imprint of www.iuniverse.com)
Available: Trade Paperback $16.95
US/$27.95
Can/E-book format $6.00 US. All prices
subject to
change.
310
Pages
6 x 9
inches
Synopsis:
A
fast-paced thriller that involves the illegal flow of nuclear
scientists to terrorist countries that seek mass-destruction
capabilities.
In
1986, because of Secretary General Gorbachev's
glasnost policies, an increasing number of cases of
bribery, embezzlement and other economic crimes begin to
surface throughout the Soviet Union.
Many
high-level government officials are already in jail because
of their illegal involvement in the Uzbek Cotton Affair,
where millions of Rubles have mysteriously disappeared. Now,
together with the money problem, nuclear scientists start to
disappear.
As part
of the Special Investigations Department (SID) of the
Procurator-General's office, Colonel Vladimir Antonovich is
tasked to stop the illegal flow of scientists, whether they
are voluntary or otherwise.
As a
member of a newly formed special committee, Vladimir prepares
a trap to snare the bureaucrat(s) that might be involved in
the kidnappings.
Before it is over, many on the
special committee are dead, and more scientists have been
kidnapped, including Vladimir's wife, Aleksandra, who is also
a nuclear scientist.
World
leaders are terrified at the prospect of nuclear scientists
ending up in Libya, Iraq, Iran or other countries where
terrorists seek mass-destruction capabilities.
Learning of a new shipment of kidnapped
scientists, Colonel Antonovich forms a tiger team. He rushes
for the Sheremetyevo Airport, where he suspects his wife and
the other scientists are being held, awaiting some secret
flight.
En
route to the airport, important questions taunt Colonel
Antonovich. Will he make it to his wife and the other
scientists before they are loaded aboard an airplane and
smuggled out of country, or will they all be killed before or
during an expected firefight?
Synopsis for A Debt of Honor. Copyright
© 2001 by Robert A. Gallinger.