Witness action and drama as author Jim Conkey weaves an intriguing and riveting story you will surely enjoy.

 

 

Meet widower Burt Turner, PhD, as he is closing his thirty-sixth year of his teaching career. He now lives with his divorced daughter in Northern California. But he doesn’t know that some things are about to change his life. A representative from Los Alamos National Laboratories locates him and asks him to come to Los Alamos in the hope that he might be able to clarify a series of reports on a nuclear incident that may have occurred in Morocco (formerly French Morocco) some forty years earlier. At that time, Turner was a U.S. Navy Lieutenant, Junior Grade, and officer in charge of a special weapons/explosive ordinance disposal team at the Naval Ordinance Facility at Port Lyautey (now Kenitra) Morocco. Representatives from the CIA and State Department will be attending the meeting in preparation for questions that might slow or prevent a plan to reestablish a small U.S. special operations presence in a number of North African countries, as part of the U.S. war on terrorism.

 

A number of poor decisions by senior officers exercising the prevailing philosophy of “everything for the mission” and “the can do spirit” lead to a series of covert missions, although successful, have appalling outcomes. The same philosophy results in a nuclear weapons security plan that, if implemented, would be catastrophic.

 

What will Turner’s role be in this series of events? Find out as you immerse deep into this cold war story.