SPARKS, Nev., Sept. 12, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Motivation by motto is a method of getting things done in the military. At times mottos, such as ``The Can Do Spirit'' or ``Everything For The Mission,'' have led to politically appalling outcomes through poor decision making by senior officers, even though an operation or mission may have been militarily successful. Witness this 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 ordnance disposal team at the Naval Ordnance 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.

The story revisits a series of covert operations led by Lieutenant Junior Grade Burt Turner, and his team's involvement in a doomsday nuclear weapons destruction plan that if implemented, because of insurgents breaching base security, would be catastrophic. The players include a female CIA analyst, two rather wayward navy pilots, a patronizing but gifted flight surgeon, and a number of strong-willed navy trauma nurses. Order a copy of A Cold War Story through Xlibris.com

About the Author

Jim Conkey is a recently retired college professor of anatomy and physiology. During the close of the cold war with Russia, he served in North Africa for two years as a U.S. Navy officer and team leader of a special weapons/explosive ordnance disposal (SW/EOD) team. Later he was group supervisor of nuclear weapons disposal at the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal School.

                 A Cold War Story * by Jim Conkey
                  Publication Date: July 7, 2008
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