The Right Guard (The Allegiance Series, Book 1)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Synopsis

“A must-read for any spy aficionado!” — Former Senior Operations Officer, CIA

“It is a profound book. One I won’t forget for a long while.” — Senior Military Officer, Pentagon

Someone is stealing weapons and ammunition from America's military bases. Who is stealing them and why? That is what CIA operative Eric Brent faces as he is being used by the CIA to flush out a secretive, "phantom" group hostile to a U.S. administration that threatens to destroy the American economy and shrink individual freedoms under the code name, Project Warrior.

Alexandra Hamlet’s first novel, The Right Guard, takes us on a suspense-filled journey through the world of intelligence and defense in the 1970’s. Over one million military weapons and equipment are missing from the U.S. military inventories across the country. Though set in 1978, The Right Guard resembles the present political and economic climate of the United States, giving the reader a sense that such a scenario is very conceivable even today.

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Author Biography

Alexandra Hamlet is an author, Cultural Anthropologist, and an International Consultant and Lecturer on cultural affairs in business and defense. She is a former television host and journalist with PBS. Her first novel, The Right Guard, won awards nationally and internationally.

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Author Insight

Small Gestures, Big Rewards

For operative Eric Brent, going on a mission he may not return from... for a moment his thoughts go to simple gestures. One last look back at a relationship he could not move forward. Someone he thought he could be happy with then duty called. To have pushed forward would have jeopardized the one person in his life he wanted desperately to protect. Was it best left in place or does he see her one more time? What purpose would it serve? Often it is our smallest gestures in life that create the energy to reinvent our lives. A smile, a handshake, a sincere gift or a 'safe lunch' or a certain ‘look’. It is the same for our characters. They are fictional but we breathe life into them by giving them circumstances and bits of life in small gestures then dramatize the effects. After all, when you think of it, the most powerful words a man and a woman say to each other throughout their entire lives is, “I do.” Then they seal it with an affectionate gesture.

Book Excerpt

The Right Guard (The Allegiance Series, Book 1)

Lunches were easy to pull off. Most women are comfortable with “just lunch.” Dinner could be something more serious, so Eric worked extra hard at letting Jill know it was a simple good-bye token of affection.

“Let’s have dinner,” Eric suggested to her. “Say good-bye, one last hurrah between friends.” However, he used the same excuse two weeks earlier when he wanted to see Jill and four days later when he drove in the area and stopped by her office to see how the campaign was going.

The Ebb Tide Grill was home turf for Eric. He wanted to be with her in a familiar place where he had a history. He wanted to take her there again. It was comfortable in one sense, but he was about to go undercover again and Ross would say maybe stupid . . . then dangerous.

The Right Guard (The Allegiance Series, Book 1)

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Alexandra Hamlet

The Right Guard (The Allegiance Series, Book 1)

Synopsis

Author Biography

Author Insight

Small Gestures, Big Rewards

Book Excerpt

The Right Guard (The Allegiance Series, Book 1)

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