Spear

Surrounded by military personnel with a paramount sense of patriotic duty, Warren Capshaw kept foremost in his mind that he was a civilian. He could quit if the crap got too deep, an option not afforded to military grunts, a term that in his mind included officers. The U.S. Army was a buffer zone for him, keeping the sludge of humanity from his doorstep. Entry into this part of Fort Belvoir was restricted. Balls had to be bar-coded to get this far. He would not allow Sarah Love to disrupt his CIA assignment. He would show her and the others. All he had to do was ignore the haunting memories locked within some unmapped room in his mind – memories so horrible that he hid them even from himself. One day he would open that room – if only to destroy it before it destroyed him. Doug Hewitt is an internationally published writer of fiction, with more than 50 stories in print. During his years in the U.S. Marine Corps he learned about "black box" military projects. Area 51, still not acknowledged by the government, is an example of a "black box" weapon development program explored in SPEAR, his first novel.