The Kochi Maru Affair - Softcover

Helix, Daniel C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915685140 ISBN 13: 9780915685141

Publisher: Devil Mountain Books, 2004

From his earliest days on the tough streets of West Berkeley, California, Ken Grainger found himself battling from the underdog position. Hard-earned physical skills enabled him to overcome most obstacles and learn the values of loyalty, respect and honor.

These values are challenged when he leaves Korea as a highly decorated combat veteran and is assigned to Army Intelligence in Japan. He becomes involved in the cover-up of a botched CIA scheme to smuggle spies into China aboard the Kochi Maru and questions the validity and morality of an operation that kills a number of innocent people.

Grainger finds himself in direct conflict with his supervisor, a bureaucratic empire builder and, more threatening, the notorious, amoral Colonel Sukow Kim of the South Korean CIA. Kim is determined to eliminate Grainger in any way possible.

Grainger enlists the support of some Army friends and finds a surprising ally in the person of Arcady Petrovsky, a Soviet Intelligence general who has his own reasons for a payback against the malevolent Colonel Kim. Together, they craft a plan to neutralize Kim and also avert a major international incident that threatens a crisis in American Intelligence.

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About the Author:

Dan Helix retired from the U.S. Army as a major general in 1989, after 41 years of active and reserve duty. He served in combat during the Korean War as a platoon leader and rifle company commander, then worked with Army Intelligence in Japan. In civilian life, he has served as mayor of Concord, California, and as a director of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District representing Contra Costa County.

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