It's the middle of the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, an armored truck with three million in cash is traveling through Oregon. And two combat chopper pilots plan their return to the states to hijack it. Pete Placker, a hell-raising Fresno State football player who dropped out to become one of the best helicopter pilots in 'Nam and Cecil Clanner, a stockbroker who got drafted, team up for what they think is their payday. They commandeer a CH-54 heavy-lift helicopter for what seems a simple heist. But when the hijacking turns into a bloody shoot-out, they find themselves in unknown territory. Now they have to contend with the Oregon wilderness, two unexpected hostages, one infected eye and their own darker sides. "Great read with authentic combat sequences. The hijacking is shades of D. B. Cooper." Robin E. Scott, Major General, U.S. Air Force (Ret) "A real page-turner. It'll make one helluva movie!" Ruben A. Cubero, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Ret) - former Dean, USAF Academy George Dorsey has been writing for 60 years. His letters and articles have been published in Time, Newsweek and Reader's Digest. George served in the US Coast Guard during WWII. Ronald D. Moore has been writing newspaper articles for over 40 years. He is a retired US Marine Corps officer who served in Vietnam.

Formal methods enable computer architecture and software design to be mathematically proved correct before they are implemented. The complexity and time-consuming nature of such proofs have limited the applications of formal methods in the main to defence and safety-critical applications. The mural project (a joint Alvey-funded project between "M"anchester "U"niversity and "R"utherford "A"ppleton "L"aboratories) has developed a software support system to help the user of formal methods. mural has created a user-friendly software environment (with extensive use of windows) that makes best use of human talents to produce computer systems that are proved to be correctly designed. Professor Cliff Jones is internationally known as the developer of the VDM system of formal notation (Vienna Development Method). This book describes the requirements, concepts, and realisation of the mural system. The authors present systematically and completely the results of this substantial research project, from the basic theoretical level to its effective implementation. The book will be of equal interest to academics working on formal methods at research level (and perhaps to graduate research students), and to practitioners and software engineers who are using - or who will have to use for defence contracts, etc. - formal methods.