CIA Fiasco
In Amy Fetzer’s newest Dragon One series, Come as You Are, people are not what they appear to be.
A woman who died may be alive. The vice president of Venezuela is
alive, but in reality, is dead. What’s true isn’t. What’s false is
true.
What’s going on? Who’s behind these convolutions? Is the CIA at fault? Former Marine, Logan Chambliss, has been dragged back into action to find out. Chambliss was a Navy Seal who got out of the Seals when a woman—Tessa Carlyle died—or, rather, he believes, erroneously that she did.
Asked by a US General to rescue a man he despises, someone he’d rather kill than help, Chambliss and seven other members of Dragon One, are catapulted into a politically explosive mess. “All the guys in Dragon One,” says Fetzer, “have had their military careers screwed by the U.S. government. All need to vindicate their lives.”
Then there’s Tessa Carlyle, a location scout for National Geographic, or is she? Carlyle’s been trying to live a quiet, anonymous life ever since Chambliss was blamed for her death more than a decade ago. When Carlyle gets a call from the man who saved her life, she’s yanked back into this lethal world of intrigue and intelligence treachery. “She’s an athlete, not soft around the edges,” Fetzer says.
At the center of this black hole is former Navy Seal, Paul Ramos, who’s been surgically and cosmetically altered to resemble the vice president of Venezuela. "It’s all part of a ploy of a rogue CIA director," says Fetzer, who believes the CIA mettles more than it should in foreign affairs.
Military life is something with which Fetzer is personally familiar. “I’ve been steeped in the world of Marines my entire life,” she says. Her father was a Colonel and her recently retired husband rose to the rank of Sergeant Major. Her son served in Iraq but left the Marines when he returned to the States in January 2007. “It’s one thing to see a father or husband go off, but when you put your child on a jet to go off to war, that’s something else,” says Fetzer. “I had to be medicated the first six months my son was gone.”
Fetzer came up with the idea of the Dragon One series years before she wrote it. “I had to wait until my husband retired to write about this stuff,” she says. “I knew too much classified information, heard too many conversations that the public’s not supposed to know.”
Amy J Fetzer
started writing at age 30 while raising her infant and three-year old
sons. Since 1993, she has published 35 novels and received numerous
writing awards including winner of Romantic Times, Best Sillouette,
2001, and winner of Romantic Times Career Achievement award in 2005.
Naked Truth and Hit Hard are the first two books in the Dragon One
series. Read an excerpt of Come As You Are here. You can also brush up on military terms found in Fetzer’s books by going to this link.
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