Everyone daydreams about being the character in a favorite book or movie. Once in a great while the daydream can become reality. This is a tale about a young man who is one of those daydreamers and gets to be part of the reality that is the basis for the daydream. In 1981 the war on terror was still in its infancy. Americans had been held hostage in Iran for 444 days from November 1979 until January 1981. The attempt to rescue them had ended in embarrassing failure for the United States Military. The new administration had decided that we would not be put in that situation again. The twenty...

Lee Thomas grew up reading James Bond. Matt Helm and similar books. He watched spy movies and televisions shows. He not only daydreamed about that world, but he trained himself. Elaborate practical jokes caught the attention of a high school teacher with some clandestine work in his own background. The teacher contacts an old comrade in arms. Lee is watched from that point forward until fall of his senior year of college. a strange visitor to his dormitory room at Virginia Tech makes him an offer that he has hoped for since he read his first espionage novel. His self training pays off in...