THE DUTY CREW

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Synopsis

THE DUTY CREW chronicles December 25, 1972, the last Christmas of the Vietnam War at Queens Naval Hospital, Long Island. The North Vietnam president’s goal is to accelerate peace talks by bringing violence to all military hospitals in the United States. Ho Chi Minh has an agenda of terrorism and murder for the Duty Crew at Queens Naval Hospital to incite U.S. public reactions against the war, while President Nixon wants to end the war by political arbitration. Three women become aware of the internal and external assault on Queens Naval Hospital. Movie Star Iona Dell spends Christmas in Hanoi as her fans promote an activist presence at the U.S. military hospitals. She realizes too late that Hanoi has American sympathizers directing terrorism outside and within their walls. Newswoman Thule Thornbush wants only anti-war slanting of the adverse events on this Christmas Day in the hope she will obtain a position on the staff of the New York Times. LT Minerva Zettler as the Duty Crew Nurse-of-the-Day identifies the deaths as murders and raises the issue of intrigue inside the hospital. Her fiancé, LT Paul Norman as Junior Medical Officer-of-the-Day realizes that Zettler’s life is in danger by the murderer inhalation therapy technician. It takes the small Navy and Marine Security Duty Crew and mobilization of the Hospital’s Vietnam returnee patients to stem Ho Chi Minh’s plans for death and destruction on American soil. The events on this Christmas Day forever alter the lives of the three women.

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Author Biography

As a retired physician I’m devoting my time to writing novels, memoir-based fiction and short stories. My life as an author of fiction began in 2003 after a few years at Toastmasters International delivering captivating stories and speeches. I believe literature should be educational, fun, serious, full of feelings and always with a touch of fantasy and a thread of truth. Like all my novels true lifetime situations are interwoven with suspenseful and intriguing story lines. My 13 novels and short story book bear that philosophy out. Reviews of my books in Amazon.com have been 5-star. Comments for WHO WILL WEEP FOR ME such as “high school coming of age makes the story feel authentic and make the reader want more” is typical of reader satisfaction. I live with my wife in San Antonio near my daughter and her family with four of my grandchildren. My goal as an author is to publish several novels a year with my novel portraying terrorism in the US, - OCEAN CITY HQ - recently published..

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Sabotage on Christmas Day

Air-evacs arrived mostly by bus to Queens Naval Hospital. Those with special needs such as total body casts, paraplegics, or burn patients arrived by train from Fort Dix, New Jersey. The rare critical wounded warrior arrived by helicopter. Anti-war activists on the enemies payroll (North Vietnam) planned to blow-up the hospital's modest railway depot building, preferably when the train arrived with an air evac load. The Christmas weather with its persistent snow and frigid cold was hampering success for the saboteurs but they're not giving up. .

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THE DUTY CREW

“What do you mean it didn’t go off?” Forno was incredulous. “I checked all the timers myself.”

“They didn’t blow and the train patients and staff are in the ER now.” Huxley was pissed but he had come to an alternative plan. He hoped it would satisfy Hanoi and counter the train station blunder.

“So what are we supposed to do now?” Forno looked at his two flunkies and rolled his eyes.

“The train depot has got to explode

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Peter Glassman

THE DUTY CREW

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Sabotage on Christmas Day

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THE DUTY CREW

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