THE PANMUNJOM PROTOCOL

by Cork Graham

International best-selling adventure memoirist and former paramilitary officer Cork Graham ventures into spy thrillers by introducing John Corbett, team leader of an elite CIA Special Activities Division, a protagonist [noted by Kansas Star as the most interesting character to come along in a thriller since Bond and Bauer.]In this first of the John Corbett Series, the world of espionage, assassination and political intrigue was a world John thought gladly left in the past. When the President of the United States began a witch-hunt solely to garner public favor by bringing up those working for the agency, he said, “Enough!” Employed for the past year as an international business negotiator and behavioral specialist, in order to afford his love for fine food and restoring priceless antiques, he receives a letter from his friend and former director he’d not talked with since his resignation.John learns his wife has been murdered. By whom, or for what reason, is not clear. What is apparent is that John can’t stand by and let nothing happen. In a déjà vu as to why he went from a normal case officer to paramilitary operations officer for the CIA in the late 1980s, John is asked to restart his group, the most efficient hunter-killer teams of the CIA’s Special Activities Division. Even the POTUS, who previously sought his resignation and prosecution, now wants him taking lead on this mission.What at first appears to be an event centralized to North and South Korea quickly reveals itself to be only a small part of a major international three-prong attack on the United States, that could topple the Free World’s economy and flip Europe and Asia upside down, putting Iran and North Korea at the top of the food chain. Once again John is on the track of Arya Ahrimman, intimidating to his Islamist fanatic handlers in Tehran, who even consider him a zealot. He’s an Iranian madman who has rightly earned his nom de guerre, Angel of Death.With so little time before the attack, John must find out not only from where the attacks are coming, but also which are the decoys, and which is the prime target. Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, The Panmunjom Protocol is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary telling of the threats to the modern world’s infrastructure.REVIEWS“A masterful telling of potential doomsday.” – John LeCarré“Compelling prose, well-drawn characters and non-stop action will thrill Graham's fans and convert the uninitiated.” –The Kansas City Star“John Corbett is one of the most interesting heroes of any thriller series.” —San Francisco Chronicle“With a bit of Jack Bauer, the skill of John LeCarré and the attention to detail of Graham Greene, Cork Graham has hit on the perfect recipe…”—Houston Chronicle

315 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 4, 2013

About the author

Cork Graham is a San Francisco-based former CIA paramilitary officer, and combat photojournalist, who has appeared as a guest on Good Morning America, CBS Morning Show, NBC News, ABC News, BBC, and many others.

Cork's central website: http://corkgraham.com

He has reported, edited and photographed for the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, ABC News, The Times, Paris Match and Vogue.

Graham is the second American to complete the Naval Special Forces course created at La Union, El Salvador by the US Navy SEALs. He served in the Latin America theater of the Cold War.

In 2004, his memoir "The Bamboo Chest: An Adventure in Healing the Trauma of War" was released, soon becoming a TopSeller, staying for 3 weeks at #2 on Amazon.com. The book details Graham's coming to grips with Post-traumatic Stress Response (PTSR) as a teenager, while in 7 months solitary confinement of an 11-month imprisonment on false charges of spying for the CIA; a ptsd case of which incurred during his childhood living in Saigon during worst years of the war: an American expat all his childhood, his first memories of life are of the Tet Offensive of 1968.

In 1993, he started a 10 year career counseling for the Native American community, through Friendship House Association of American Indians and the Native American Health Center, helping those unable to deal with the symptoms of the Post-Traumatic Stress Response (PTSR).

Graham has been interviewed for a number of national and international print, radio and TV media outlets, not the least of which are NBC News, CNN, AP, UPI, ABC News, NPR, People, Time, Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury, London Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Agence France Press, Associated Press, KFOG, KNBR, and Washington Post.

Presently, he publishes two online multimedia magazines. In 2009 he began producing http://corksoutdoors.com and in 2010 started http://globalcounterterror.com. His first political intrigue novel will be published in July 2011.

Cork's PTSR website is http://bamboochest.com