Facts and Circumstances: A Novel
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0802712304 / Publisher: Walker & Co, February 1993
Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Major General Gary Veliotis, appointed to lead an MIA task force, discovers that one of the missing soldiers had served with him in 'Nam.
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Although it's been over twenty years since the end of the Vietnam War, with the prospect of renewed diplomatic relations between Hanoi and Washington, Maj. Gen. Gary Veliotis is appointed by the president to lead an MIA task force, a job unlikely to produce many happy outcomes.Appearing before a House committee on missing persons in Southeast Asia, the general discovers that Representative Kathleen Fenn's brother declared MIA in 1968, had served with Veliotis in the 307th Electronic Reconnaissance Squadron in the central highlands of Vietnam. She asks Veliotis for his help in resolving her brother's case.Veliotis vividly remembers two things from that time: Fenn's brother, and the murder investigation into the deaths of several senior officers - a Facts and Circumstances inquiry into a "war within a war" - he had to conduct in between flying dangerous reconnaissance missions over enemy territory searching for prisoner-of-war camps, among other things.With the hindsight of twenty years, General Veliotis discovers that sometimes long-buried secrets - and raw memories - are best left undisturbed.
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