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Choosing Sides (Die-Hard Patriots, A Political Thriller Series) (Volume 2)
Choosing Sides - Die-Hard Patriots, A Political Thriller Series - Volume 2 Author:Hyrum Laney The USS Charlotte's intelligence-gathering mission into the Chinese waters of the Bo Hai Bay has failed. Three Chinese warships and hundreds of sailors lie on the bottom of the Yellow Sea, but 78 Charlotte crewmen are dead, the U.S. financial markets are plummeting under Chinese manipulation, and China is threatening war. The President wants pea... more »ce-at any cost. He sends Secretary of State Claire Haskett to negotiate with the manipulative Ambassador Chen Feng, but meanwhile the surviving crewmen of the Charlotte have been sickened by a Chinese chemical weapon and desperately need medical care. Secrecy is an absolute necessity if an arrangement is to be reached with the Chinese, so the audacious decision is made to hide the survivors in plain sight-in the Dilorenzo Health Clinic inside the Pentagon. But one survivor escapes, threatening to reveal the failed covert operation. The President recruits Senate staffer Cal Stockton to rein him in. As Haskett and Chen Feng maneuver for an advantage, Stockton is pulled deeper into the affair. Realizing that a massive cover-up is underway, he is forced into CHOOSING SIDES.« less