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About the Book

 In this second of a series, Mitchell Moore, an iconoclastic Army general who has used blackmail to become the Army’s director of public affairs, enjoys what looks like impunity. His boss wants to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and has hitched his wagon to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

 The candidate, virulently antigay, is in fact gay, and Mitchell threatens to expose the hypocrisy. Then people in his life start dying bizarrely. A gay woman from his office and her lover die after being strung up like marionettes. Rabid squirrels attack Mitchell in his house.

 From his past come the embittered widow of one of his platoon commanders accompanied by a mentally crippled survivor of a company that Mitchell led into a disastrous ambush. As therapy, he introduces them to a Vietnamese friend who manages a restaurant.

 The murders continue until Mitchell establishes a link that had been under his nose.

About the Author

Timothy Hutchens, who has spent most of his life in publications, is a former executive editor of Pacific Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper in Tokyo for the American military in the Far East. He has also worked in Washington as a staff member on Capitol Hill for the House Government Information Subcommittee and as a contract information specialist for the Environmental Protection Agency. For more than a decade he was a reporter and editor for The Washington Star. Earlier he had been a reporter for newspapers in Massachusetts, Arizona and California as well as for the New York Herald Tribune. Between jobs in his native New York and his adoptive Washington he was a free-lance writer in Paris.