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JAG lawyer Sean Drummond has gotten himself in way over his head-with a case that challenges his deepest fears and a co-counselor who challenges just about everything else. Assigned to South Korea as an advocate for a gay officer accused of brutally killing the son of a South Korean war hero, Drummond is teamed up with an old law-school nemesis. Katherine Carson is a curvy, liberal, William Kunstler-like attorney with a reputation for manipulating the media on behalf of her mostly gay clients. Drummond is as distraught to be working with a woman who knows how to push all his buttons as he is to be defending this client. However, its just this lack of political correctness that makes him the one man the CIA can trust with its disturbing secrets, and Drummond quickly learns that what appears to be an open-and-shut case is really just the top layer of a deep conspiracy.
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MORTAL
ALLIES
ALLIES
Also by Brian Haig
Secret Sanction
MORTAL
ALLIES
ALLIES
BRIAN HAIG
An AOL Time Warner Company
The events and characters in this book are fictitious. Certain real locations and public figures are mentioned, but all other characters and events described in the book are totally imaginary.
Copyright 2002 by Brian Haig
All rights reserved.
Warner Books, Inc., Hachette Book Group, 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Visit our Web site at www.HachetteBookGroup.com.
First eBook Edition: May 2002
The Warner Books name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-7595-2768-3
To Lisa,
Brian, Pat, Donnie, and Anne
Brian, Pat, Donnie, and Anne
Acknowledgments
N o book is an author's alone. Some individuals help conjure the images, like General (ret.) Robert W. RisCassi, who commanded the alliance in Korea for three years and did more to improve our common security than anyone will possibly know. And did more to inspire my imaginationas well as many othersabout the true meaning of great leadership and personal character than he will ever know. Or Pete Kinney and Chuck Wardell, two former soldiers who help shape the picture of Sean Drummond.
Or Luke Janklow, my agent, friend, and advocate. And all the rest of the team at Janklow & Nesbitt, who really are the best in the business.
Or Rick Horgan, the kind of editor every novice writer dreams about: demanding, thoughtful, experienced, and on the mark.
Or Mari Okuda and Roland Ottewell, who did the copyediting and, to my everlasting chagrin, corrected more mistakes than I can count. And all the rest of the folks at Warner Books, from Larry Kirshbaum down, who make the book business seem like a circle of friends just having a great time.
I owe them all my appreciation.
As I do to the men and women of our Armed Forces, who keep us safe.
MORTAL
ALLIES
ALLIES
CHAPTER
1
1
T here are two things about Korea you never forget.
The first is the roiling mishmash of stinks.That May, there was the bitter stench of tear gas, an essence of spring and fall, since Korean students are what you might term fair-weather protesters. There was the ripened aroma of kimchi, a spiced and aged cabbage that makes your nostrils think your upper lip's plagued with gangrene. On top of that was the acrid odor of garlic, the lifeblood of every Korean. Finally, there were all the smells of careless progress: smog, construction, and human sweat.
The second thing you never forget is exactly how miserably steamy a Korean late spring day can be. My shirt was pasted to my back before I got halfway across the tarmac to the flight building of Osan Air Base.
I dashed straight through the entry and shoved aside a sputtering Army captain who was rooted like a potted plant waiting to meet and greet me.
"Major Drummond, I, ooof" was all he could manage before he crashed up against the wall. Then I heard him skittering along behind me.
I moved my stiff legs as fast as I could, till I spied the door I so desperately sought. I lunged through hard enough to blow it off the hinges; the captain scurried right behind me. At the urinal I got my zipper down not a moment too soon.Another millisecond and the jig would've been up.
My escort propped himself against the sink and studied me with an awed expression. "Jeez, you should see your face."
"You got no idea."
"Long flight, huh?"
I put my left hand against the wall. "Long ain't the half of it. Know whose neck I'd like to wring? The miserable bastard who broke the only toilet in the C-141. I've had my legs crossed since the Alaskan border."
"Well, you're finally here," he consoled, grinning like a fool.
"I guess I am."
A full, awkward thirty seconds passed before he nervously tapped his leg. "My name's Chuck Wilson. I, uh, I've been told to pick you up and escort you to Seoul."
"Hey, that's great, Chuck. Why?"
"Huh?"
"Why are you taking me to Seoul? Why am I in Korea in the first place?"
An exquisitely befuddled look popped onto his face."I got no idea, sir. Why are you here?"
The stream of urine flooding out of my body had not abated one bit. I got worried. Has anybody ever pissed himself to death?
I didn't ask him that, though. I said,"If I knew that, why the hell would I be asking you?"
He glanced down at his watch and said, "You okay, Major? It's been over a minute."
"No, I'm not okay," I complained. "My hand's tired. This damn thing's so big and heavy. Can you come over here and hold it for me?"
We both chuckled a little too emphatically, like real men do whenever any topic arises even remotely touching on homosexuality.
"Sheeit," he drawled in a deep, manly way,"some things a man's gotta do hisself."
"Damn right," I firmly pronounced.
He averted his eyes while I gave Ol' Humungo a manly shake, reholstered, and got my zipper back up."Okay," I said, moving to the sinks and splashing some water on my hands and face, "let's find my bags and get outta here."
"Forget the bags," he said."My driver's getting 'em."
We went out, and a husky young corporal named Vasquez was standing proudly beside a spanking-new black Kia sedan with lots of gleaming chrome. I made him open the trunk so I could peek in, and sure enough there sat my duffel bag and oversize lawyer's briefcase.Then Wilson and I climbed into the backseat.
"Well, ain't this the plush life," I remarked, running an admiring hand across the leather upholstery. "I figured you'd get me in a nasty old humvee."
"Not unless I got an armed escort."
"Armed escort?"
He gave me a curious look."Haven't you been reading the papers?"
I said, "Hey, Chuck, see these shorts and this ratty T-shirt I'm wearing?"
"Yes sir."
"This is what's called formal attire in Bermuda. See, that's where I was until, uh, oh"I looked at my watch"until about twenty-eight hours ago. Know what's so great about Bermuda? No? Let me tell you: No newspapers. No TVs. No cares in the world but which beach has the skimpiest bikinis and which bar's having a two-for-one special at happy hour."
He nodded right along."Yeah, well, things aren't so blas over here. We're drowning in anti-American riots. It's gotten so bad we're restricted to our bases. No civilian cars with U.S. plates and no unescorted military vehicles are allowed outside the gates."
"That why we're in this Kia?"
"It's less noticeable.And it took a two-star general to sign off on letting me come get you. I asked for a helicopter, but, no offense intended, they said you just weren't that damned important."
"A helicopter?" I asked, beginning to think this captain was a little over the edge.This was South Korea.These people were our allies, not our enemies.
Sounding not the least bit contrite, he said, "I know it sounds crazy, but, hey, the American embassy got firebombed two days ago. The ambassador actually got beat up. Bad, too. He had to be medevaced to Hawaii."
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