A Soviet agent steals a MIG jet and defects to a U.S. air craft carrier toward the end of the cold war. U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Col. Keith Shaddix, who works at N.A.T.O. headquarters in Brussels, learns there’s a mole inside American military intelligence. Along with CIA agent Burl Matlock, they start the hunt for the mole which quickly point back at Shaddix.
Jack R. Stanley is an award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam he was awarded the Bronze Star. Yet he says, “When you’re in a firefight and everybody else on both side have guns while you have a camera --- you get to change your pants a lot.” After his military service he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also received two of Michigan¹s most prestigious creative writing awards Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He directed for stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student staffed, cast, and crewed feature film --- writing most of the original screenplays. A few of his credits are available on IMDB.com. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www.TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com .