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by Edward a. Drum MD (Author)
LCDR Peter Tierney (medical corps) USNR has returned from a West-Pac flight surgery billet for duty as the senior medical officer a the nuclear submarine base Bangor on Puget Sound. Here he must resolve the very sudden loss of his close friend CDR Charles Brewer and the inexplicable chill of Peter's love, Shawn Carol. Commander Charles Brewer, USN was a general surgeon who had been deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Peter finds a suicide note near his friend's body. The Commander it appears was bisexual and HIV positive. Peter begins a covert search for the truth, when a veiled and orchestrated cover-up sweeps Charles's death into top secret files. Peter's search takes him to GITMO, the CDC, NIH, AFIP, Los Alamos and the National Center for Medical Intelligence. Pieces of this puzzle begin to take shape giving glimpses of evil forces behind Charles death and the global epidemic of AIDS. Like the vortex of a black hole, Peter cannot escape this perilous journey for which he is ill prepared. After this journey, you may need to rethink what you previously felt secure in knowing. Will the present day epidemic of Ebola become as politically and ineptly mismanaged as was the AIDS epidemic?
Author Biography
The author is a graduate of Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. Internship and residency training followed at the Medical College of Wisconsin. A two year tour was required with the US Navy under the Ensign 1914 program during the Viet Nam War. After completion of this obligation, he practiced medicine in the private sector for 12 years until overcome by governmental bureaucracies making it unethical to practice medicine. He discovered himself telling sea stories and chose the Navy flight school training in aerospace medicine to serve the greater good of national defense. After his second tour in the Philippines and Japan, he finalized his career as the Wing flight surgeon for EA-6B Prowlers (CVWP). He served many squadrons and call sign is "Discodoc". He is a general aviation instrument pilot, a sailor, married with two loving children, grandchildren and step daughter who is responsible for the cover photo overlooking Penn Cove, WA. Edward is very proud to be an American citizen and student of the Constitution. He takes pride in being the idea man behind the Olympia Tea Party and a President's club member of Hillsdale College.
