Fate Stalks the Pacific Sky

Description

Lieutenant David Miller has all the right credentials: Annapolis graduate, the gold wings of a naval aviator, and the recent completion of the Navy’s counterintelligence school. But he is lacking the most important ingredient in the real and deadly world of espionage —experience. His clandestine assignments use the luxurious Boeing 314 flying boat, operated by Pan American, as a cover Miller begins an unintended relationship with one of the passengers, a Japanese-American. His prejudice is tempered by her decidedly ‘American’ culture and personality but he is unsure of her loyalty to America. While aware of his shortcomings in espionage, Miller is totally unsuspecting of how ill prepared he is for a first serious encounter with a young lady who is aggressive for his affections. Will this relationship compromise the mission? Can youth and moral fortitude triumph over experience and savage treachery?

First Sentence

Doc said I’d be delirious with fever… he’s right. Heat feels like a bed of needles. Flesh so hot, air is suffocating; can’t think straight. Lying here dying while he cuts on me—eight thousand miles from home. How could I let this happen? How could things have changed so much in such a short time? Or have I changed? I had my whole life ahead of me. Now maybe it’s all behind me. I didn't think it would turn out this way.

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