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Red Enemy
Court martial, the dread of every soldier. That of colonel Destry Corrigan, US army in Germany for murder and desertion, was no exception.
He was captured by terrorists and forced to play computerised war games—against a Russian of similar rank, Viktor Nolev, during the Cold War to increase their ransomvalue.
The war games have been set up by two British computer experts, James Prettywood and Rossleen Courtby, also abducted by the terrorists for that purpose. The two colonels are expected to play a series of six war games, each having a formidable complement of infantry, armour and secret weapons. When a secret weapon appears on the screen, it is highlighted as a bright red symbol, the ‘Red Enemy’ of the title. This has to be destroyed as one condition of winning the campaign.
But things go wrong and the terrorists intend killing their captives at the end of the war games, so the two colonels together with the two British captives plan a spectacular mass escape.
When they do, the terrorists pursue them across north Germany with recapture chillingly imminent on the way. When Corrigan and Nolev finally evade their pursuers, Corrigan discovers that he is wanted for the murder of a soldier left behind when he was captured. Rather than face prison or possible execution, he goes on the run for several years after the Cold War ends with the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He is eventually persuaded to give himself up by a woman he meets while on the run.
His story of capture by terrorists is not believed by his superiors and he is court-martialled. During the trial a surprise witness appears and verifies his story.
He was captured by terrorists and forced to play computerised war games—against a Russian of similar rank, Viktor Nolev, during the Cold War to increase their ransomvalue.
The war games have been set up by two British computer experts, James Prettywood and Rossleen Courtby, also abducted by the terrorists for that purpose. The two colonels are expected to play a series of six war games, each having a formidable complement of infantry, armour and secret weapons. When a secret weapon appears on the screen, it is highlighted as a bright red symbol, the ‘Red Enemy’ of the title. This has to be destroyed as one condition of winning the campaign.
But things go wrong and the terrorists intend killing their captives at the end of the war games, so the two colonels together with the two British captives plan a spectacular mass escape.
When they do, the terrorists pursue them across north Germany with recapture chillingly imminent on the way. When Corrigan and Nolev finally evade their pursuers, Corrigan discovers that he is wanted for the murder of a soldier left behind when he was captured. Rather than face prison or possible execution, he goes on the run for several years after the Cold War ends with the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He is eventually persuaded to give himself up by a woman he meets while on the run.
His story of capture by terrorists is not believed by his superiors and he is court-martialled. During the trial a surprise witness appears and verifies his story.
244 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2002
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