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Tavang Sing, the son of a CIA mercenary and a woman who lived in
the Hmong village of Ban Xon in Laos, was born after his father was
captured by the Pathet Lao in that country's civil war in the
1960's. After his birth his mother took him to Chicago, where as a
teenager he became involved with a street gang. But, with the help
of a stranger, who turns out to be his long lost father, Tavang
left the gang. He then graduated from high school and Northwestern
University, and joined the Peace Corps in Laos. Upon his return, he
graduated from the University of Chicago School of Law. He then
became a lawyer, and eventually a politician.
After the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade
Center in New York City, Tavang joined the military to exact
revenge on Osama bin Laden, one of the masterminds of 9/11.
As a freelance CIA operative, Mick Scott was no stranger to danger.
He had infiltrated the violent Weather Underground, and now he was
assigned to pose as a Russian correspondent for Radio Moscow while
actually reporting on the atrocities of Pol Pot in Cambodia for
Voice of America.
In the process, he helped to liberate a young French/Cambodian
woman named Lovea Duval, who in the midst of Pol Pot's murderous
rampage, emerged as the leader of a counterinsurgency known as the
People's Republican Army (PRA).
Utilizing guerrilla warfare, the PRA (also known as the "War
Wolves") pursued Pol Pot's Communist army, the Khmer Rouge, across
northern Cambodia from Thailand to Vietnam. Eventually becoming
allied with invading Vietnamese forces who deposed Pol Pot, the PRA
evolved into the People's Republican Party, and Duval was
considered to be a prime candidate to represent Cambodia in a
coalition government. But the Khmer Rouge, who remained active
despite being on the run, had other plans for Duval.
"Days of Rage" is the story of Mick Scott who, after returning home
from the Vietnam War in 1968, attends school on the G.I. Bill at
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. There he makes the
acquaintance of David Gordon, the director of the controversial
Vietnamese Studies Center; controversial because it is rumored to
be affiliated with the CIA.
Scott soon concludes it is no rumor when Gordon recruits him to
infiltrate the local Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in an
effort to uncover a spy that has infiltrated the Center. As Gordon
suspects, it is someone who is affiliated in some way (directly or
indirectly) with the SDS.
Kris Longknife has been given her first independent command in the
very remote system of Chance, an assignment that's as much exile as
promotion, but she's not on the job long when she captures pirates
hiding the location of an uncharted and unpopulated planet of
miraculous technology. Original.
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