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Overview
1965-68. The world has gone crazy. Marine Major Steven Hebert, stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the height of the Vietnam Conflict, has a front-row view both of the military strategy and the direct interference from politicians. Yet, because he is African American in a White world, he is given little respect for his experience. Finally, he is recognized for his service and knowledge and is promoted to a new assignment with the Marine Corps as a part of MarCor85, a progressive committee postulating what the battlefield will look like 20 years in the future. While his assignment puts him on the strategy side of the war instead of his desired combat role, he finds himself in the middle of the Tet Offensive, fighting off the crack Viet Cong team attacking the U.S. Embassy—and becomes embroiled in a life and death battle with the Viet Cong lieutenant leading this assault.
In Laos, the "Secret War" continues, the CIA is not only assisting Vang Pao's army fighting along the Ho Chi Minh trail but also continuing their relationship with the Mafia to produce more and more illegal drugs and shipping them to Saigon, the United States and the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, all the way around the world in Washington, DC, reporter Rita Sullivan continues to cover the Anti-War protests. However, she secretly investigates the murders of two individuals with ties to President Kennedy; one who had a relationship with him, while the other was involved with his autopsy. As she delves deeper in these murders the evidence she uncovers places her at odds with those not wanting the truth out, the CIA. The few people willing to talk to her end up missing or dead. After her photographer is kidnapped, she must decide if her desire to resolve these murders are worth the huge risk to her own personal safety.
In Laos, the "Secret War" continues, the CIA is not only assisting Vang Pao's army fighting along the Ho Chi Minh trail but also continuing their relationship with the Mafia to produce more and more illegal drugs and shipping them to Saigon, the United States and the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, all the way around the world in Washington, DC, reporter Rita Sullivan continues to cover the Anti-War protests. However, she secretly investigates the murders of two individuals with ties to President Kennedy; one who had a relationship with him, while the other was involved with his autopsy. As she delves deeper in these murders the evidence she uncovers places her at odds with those not wanting the truth out, the CIA. The few people willing to talk to her end up missing or dead. After her photographer is kidnapped, she must decide if her desire to resolve these murders are worth the huge risk to her own personal safety.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940162989202 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Amber Publishers Company |
| Publication date: | 09/06/2020 |
| Series: | The Pawns Series , #3 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
About the Author
Kesterson is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. But before he could move back to the State he loved, he had to return to birth State of West Virginia to work in the oil and gas industry. Kesterson started a consulting petroleum geology practice. His career was built around small oil and gas companies developing Devonian shale wells. Throughout his career, Kesterson built a reputation of being a good researcher, particularly finding old, obscure data and being “tight-lipped when it comes to client’s secrets.”
Then one day Kesterson’s career took an unusual twist; while at his post office, Kesterson bumped into an old family friend, who asked to use his fax machine. This simple act blossomed into a three year relationship with the older gentleman mentoring him in the international business and banking world. As their relationship developed, the mentor introduced him to more of his international contacts and relied on Kesterson more and more for help in analyzing and researching projects. One day, the mentor invited Kesterson to his office to show him a gold certificate issued by a world prime bank. A company he was consulting for had asked him to check its validity. While the mentor worked on it from the banking side, Kesterson researched the individual to whom the gold certificate was issued. A little over a year later, the mentor passed away, leaving Kesterson to finish the research and discover what had happened to the gold.
Don resides in Chapin, South Carolina, with his wife of over twenty-five years, Jayne, and his only daughter Amber. In his spare time, besides writing, he is also a runner, an assistant basketball coach at Chapin High School and involved with AAU basketball.
In 2018, Don was introduced to Vietnamese family, the Vuongs, who asked him to write their story of the escape from communist South Vietnam. The patriarch of the family had kept a journal of his life and that of his family up through finally successfully escaping to the US. Kesterson turned his journal into a memoir, Ring of Freedom.
Kesterson has two of three novels out in his Gold series is now available, The President's Gold and Gold of the Spirits. Also, he has another two of three novel's published on the Vietnam Conflict, Pawns: Magic Bullet , Pawns: Kings In Check, and Pawns: Stalemate. He has plans to write at least four additional novels, based upon real history—not the history taught in school.
Then one day Kesterson’s career took an unusual twist; while at his post office, Kesterson bumped into an old family friend, who asked to use his fax machine. This simple act blossomed into a three year relationship with the older gentleman mentoring him in the international business and banking world. As their relationship developed, the mentor introduced him to more of his international contacts and relied on Kesterson more and more for help in analyzing and researching projects. One day, the mentor invited Kesterson to his office to show him a gold certificate issued by a world prime bank. A company he was consulting for had asked him to check its validity. While the mentor worked on it from the banking side, Kesterson researched the individual to whom the gold certificate was issued. A little over a year later, the mentor passed away, leaving Kesterson to finish the research and discover what had happened to the gold.
Don resides in Chapin, South Carolina, with his wife of over twenty-five years, Jayne, and his only daughter Amber. In his spare time, besides writing, he is also a runner, an assistant basketball coach at Chapin High School and involved with AAU basketball.
In 2018, Don was introduced to Vietnamese family, the Vuongs, who asked him to write their story of the escape from communist South Vietnam. The patriarch of the family had kept a journal of his life and that of his family up through finally successfully escaping to the US. Kesterson turned his journal into a memoir, Ring of Freedom.
Kesterson has two of three novels out in his Gold series is now available, The President's Gold and Gold of the Spirits. Also, he has another two of three novel's published on the Vietnam Conflict, Pawns: Magic Bullet , Pawns: Kings In Check, and Pawns: Stalemate. He has plans to write at least four additional novels, based upon real history—not the history taught in school.
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