The Arrowhead Incident

About the Book

The Arrowhead Incident opens on a tense, windy night in Saudi Arabia, just hours before the start of Desert Storm.  An American Apache helicopter blows up an American Bradley Fighting Vehicle, killing three soldiers.  The Army investigates and rules the tragic event pilot error.  Since these things happen in combat, the incident is written off as a case of fratricide.  Here the story would have ended had it not been for the mother of one of the young men killed.  She wrote to her senator from Louisiana, Senator Joshua Miles, making an emotional plea for the senator to please look into the case.  Josh Miles does, and what he discovers disturbs him.  Miles suspects that the Army is not telling him the truth and he asks his old friend, Adam Judd, to give him an honest assessment of what really happened.  Judd makes the shocking discovery that the Army and Nicholas Aerospace, the maker of the Arrowhead missile, have a most cozy relationship.  Digging deeper, Judd discovers that the Arrowhead has serious problems and should never have been rushed into production.  Going where the evidence leads him, Judd follows the trail into the highest levels of the Department of Defense.  When a three-star general dies under very suspicious circumstances, both Judd and Miles realize that they are both playing a very deadly game, with nothing less than national security hanging in the balance.

About the Author

John Cook was born and raised in the coalfields of southern West Virginia. He attended the University of Delaware and Boston University. His experiences in Vietnam are graphically captured in The Advisor: The Phoenix Program in Vietnam (Bantam; Schiffer). Other books include DUST OFF (Bantam), Armor at Fulda Gap (Avon), East Fork (Xlibris) and The Arrowhead Incident (Xlibris). John Cook spent twenty years in the Army as an Intelligence Officer and now spends his time writing, teaching and serving as a consultant to the US Army. He is an expert on weapons development and military strategy, having written military doctrine in unconventional warfare. Amos Tarr: Native Son is the latest major work from Mr. Cook. It is a work that returns him to his roots in his beloved West Virginia.