Walking K

by Wes DeMott

Overview

This entirely revised and updated version is now released as e-book (2012).

DeMott, a former FBI Agent, analyzed intelligence documents, Nixon's White House tapes, Congressional Records, and interviews with commanding officers of Prisoners of War in researching WALKING K, the tragic story of a reluctant conspiracy lumbered upon the shoulders of each U.S. President since 1975. Crosscutting between dramatic battlefield scenes, heartbreaking torture, American businesses protecting their investments, and a continuing refusal by the White House to reveal the shameful truth, the emotional ending of this political thriller sadly shows why the United States Government stopped wanting the lost men of that war to come home, and perhaps sheds light on the government's attitude toward the POW classification in wars since Vietnam.

America's leaders haven't faced a Prisoner of War crisis since the debacle over POWs left behind in Vietnam. Walking K is an exciting thriller that exposes the tragic reason it can't be allowed to happen again.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013667259
Publisher:	Admiral House Publishing
Publication date:	01/19/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	634 KB

About the Author

Wes is a real-life adventurer, one of those people who turns life on its head and shakes the change from its pockets. A global traveler, yacht rat, intellectual, surf bum, actor, romantic, former F.B.I./S.W.A.T. Agent and Security Consultant, raconteur and all-around fun guy, Wes can debate Voltaire and Rousseau while wrenching on a greasy diesel far out at sea, or drop into a point break wave as skillfully as he’s crept within grasp of wild game.

Over the past dozen years Wes has garnered international acclaim for his novels about prisoners of war, the FBI, military assassins, and spies. In his literary novel, Loving Zelda, he wrote about hope and loss and the chance to change our lives if we’re fearless enough to try. Tortuga Gold reflects a fun new chapter in Wes’s own life as he’s joined in his adventures by his beautiful Belgian wife.

Wes’s love of the ocean often plays into his short stories and novels. He’s boated thousands of miles on dozens of his own boats, surfed world famous breaks, and caught or speared game fish since he was thirteen. In 2010, after sailing from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida’s West Coast and selling their residence, Wes and Sabine made a permanent move aboard their new boat, a trawler they named Wasafiri (“The Wanderers” in Swahili). After a shakedown cruise of 1200 miles, Wes took off for Bocas del Toro, Panama, planning to pick up Sabine in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. But the voyage was cut short when Wes shipwrecked in violent seas off the western tip of Cuba and was rescued by the Carnival Cruise ship, VALOR. When Wes abandoned ship he left behind all their possessions except their cat and his American flag. Immediately after the Coast Guard told Sabine of the rescue, she texted a friend a message that well defines the way these two live: “Boat lost at sea. Wes and crew alive. All possessions gone. New adventures ahead.”

The couple spent a few months in Mexico and in June of 2011 they moved to Portland, Oregon to begin exploring America’s Pacific Northwest. Their shopping list of replacement items included backpacks, a good knife, Merrill hiking boots, and of course, a replacement adventure hat for Wes.

Editorial Reviews

"Wes DeMott not only writes well, he writes with passion and conviction." ?Nelson DeMille, Author of Up Country

Bestselling Author - Nelson DeMille

"DeMott, a former FBI agent, writes movingly of ex-PW's struggle with wartime horrors." - Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly - Editorial review

"Walking K is a fast-paced and engrossing read. It hits the ground running, with a plot which engages the reader from the first paragraph. The subject is both fascinating and disturbing, addressing a myriad of unresolved issues from a difficult period in our nation's history. I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. DeMott's book and look forward to the next." – Larry E. Craig, U.S. Senator

U.S. Senator - Larry Craig

"DeMott may have found the correct path for informing America of its abandoned soldiers-something the truth alone has failed to do." – Col. Ted Guy (Ret.), POW captured in Laos, and cmdr of all POWs captured in Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam.

. - Col. Ted Guy (Ret.)

"If you're patriotic enough to get goose bumps when 'The Star Spangled Banner' plays, you'll love Wes DeMott's debut novel, Walking K. DeMott combines exquisite action and heart-stopping suspense to create an indefatigable hero (...) the characters are credible and so well-developed that readers may even hear anxious gasps of breath when protagonist Jacob Slaughter is repeatedly faced with life-and-death decisions." – Naples Daily News

Naples Daily News - Editorial Review.