A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken
promises, an occasional triumph.
1978--a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green
Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will
last over forty years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen
and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and
begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five
continents.
Along with a small coterie of fellow former Special Operations and
intelligence community veterans like Penguini, Max, Reek, The Spider
Woman and a score of others--some heroes and some villains--they
undertake a variety of missions for the government, other governments,
large multinational corporations mostly in the aerospace or resource
development industries, and occasionally just for suffering individuals
who cannot find help anywhere else. In the process they lay the
groundwork for an entire new industry of private military contractors.
Two men sadly just a bit ahead of their time.
Every episode in this book actually happened. Not always precisely as
described herein, but close. Changes have been made sometimes to make
the narrative flow more smoothly, some to obfuscate events that might be
flirting with classification issues... Names have been changed, not
always to protect the innocent. But the underlying story is, for the
most part, the reality as they lived it.
