By Peter T. Deutermann
Aboard the loo Bell Hood, through the Vietnam warfare, Lieutenant Brian Holcomb uncovers a perilous mystery that can wreck his profession or the lives of enormous quantities of guys, whereas, on land, his spouse Maddy unearths herself drawn to one other guy. by way of the writer of Scorpion within the Sea.
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Brian, apparently we’re going to divert on our way up to Red Crown to join a Sea Dragon task unit for a surface shoot above the DMZ. ” Brian felt a surge of interest. A fire mission against North Vietnamese targets. And, unlike operations in the South, the Communists often shot back. Suddenly, the war business seemed very real; his apprehensions about his career were pushed into the background. ” Jack Rockheart came out of the chow line with a trayful of Navy-standard heavy lunch. He was nearly six feet tall, heavyset in the chest and shoulders, with a large head and face, slicked-down black hair, wide-set dark brown eyes under heavy black brows, and a hooked nose.
He was one of those rare birds, a native of Washington, D. C. His father had been a professional mechanical engineer in the Navy Department’s Bureau of Ships, and his mother was also a civil servant, a chemist who worked for the Department of the Interior. His parents had met during the Great Depression at a scientific symposium in Washington, then married in 1937. Brian had come along in 1939, a few months before war broke out in Europe. The Holcomb family had lived in the Chevy Chase area for as long as Brian could remember, on a quiet side street off Military Road.
Please, let’s not fight. I’m sorry I’m being such a bitch about the deployment. ” Brian sighed and turned around. The sight of Maddy in the soft light of the bedroom, that mass of blond hair, her lovely face, her glorious breasts bared above the sheet, was still enough to take his breath away, even after almost four years of marriage. So then why the hell on this, their last night, morning, whatever, together, couldn’t he perform? As if reading his thought, Maddy patted the bed next to her. “Come on, Brian.