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DeMott, a former FBI Agent, analyzed intelligence documents, Nixon’s White House tapes, Congressional Records, and interviews with commanding officers of Prisoners of War in researching WALKING K, the tragic story of a reluctant conspiracy lumbered upon the shoulders of each U.S. President since 1975. Crosscutting between dramatic battlefield scenes, heartbreaking torture, American businesses protecting their investments, and a continuing refusal by the White House to reveal the shameful truth, the emotional ending of this political thriller sadly shows why the United States Government stopped wanting the lost men of that war to come home, and perhaps sheds light on the government’s attitude toward the POW classification in wars since Vietnam.
America's leaders haven't faced a Prisoner of War crisis since the debacle over POWs left behind in Vietnam. Walking K is an exciting thriller that exposes the tragic reason it can't be allowed to happen again.
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Fiction, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Prisoners of war, Missing in action, Prisoners and prisons, government corruption, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Prisoners, Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, thrillers, espionagePlaces
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
June 8th, 1994
Jacob Slaughter paced to the bed and turned for the ninety-seventh time, an exact number of which he was absolutely positive. Either his cell had been larger or he was now faster as he made three steps to the wall, a turn, and ten steps to the window before heading back to the bed, avoiding the mirror's reflection of the terrified face of his own youth, now eroded by time to match his forty-six-year-old body, his absolute fear of this country crawling down his neck like the warm breath of a predatory animal.
The two thousand three-hundred and sixty-two new steps while waiting for Lu Kham Phong were an insignificant addition to the much larger number from two and a half decades earlier. The deep cut across his nose had healed over those years and his right cheek was now only slightly sunken from the guard's gouging, but his eyes were still wide and worried. He understood their look too well, sure of himself where fear was concerned. There were no hidden elements they hadn't forced him to explore.
Lu Kham Phong was a quiet little man who'd been insistent and demanding. "Wait in your hotel," he'd said, "and stay off the streets of Hanoi. Anything could happen here, even now, and the issues between our two governments are too important to risk an unnecessary setback."
So Slaughter waited, taking inventory of all the differences between this room and the last one Vietnam had provided him. And he worried along with Secretary of State Mills that his skills as a Foreign Service Officer might be overwhelmed by his past. But the Vietnamese Foreign Minister had personally insisted on Slaughter, leaving Mills no option but to send him.
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