EARTHBOUND EAGLE — Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas pens another gripping gut twister with this Cold War tale of diplomacy, espionage, defection, and death the old fashioned way. Lucas introduces Casey Gannot, a fifty-four year old retired Naval Aviator, an Admiral, scientist, husband and father. Casey is asked to take a quiet diplomatic assignment in Oslo involving Scandinavia's most outspoken and well-known professor and anti-Communist, Dr. Borge Aarvik. Sam Abrahms is back, as Casey's field control. We travel an ULTRA journey that begins in the Nation's capital, and meanders through Oslo, Copenhagen and Aarhus, the new KGB building in Moscow, USSR, then on to Goteborg by tramp coastal steamer. A classic auto run through Sweden to the Norwegian border turns nasty, causing a need for BLACK cover in Trondheim, and then a short hop to Helsinki, bound for inescapable danger. He's got one more hairy flight to make. Casey had enough trouble at home. He didn't have to travel to find it.

Oh, what the hell. He'll give this his best shot!