A Dangerous Profession

By

David Mannes
It’s 1986 and the new Star Wars weapon system has been compromised. Calvin Painter, a key engineer of the program, has gone missing.
A Dangerous Profession

By

David Mannes

It’s 1986 and the new Star Wars weapon system has been compromised. Calvin Painter, a key engineer of the program, has gone missing.

 A Dangerous Profession: two tales of espionage

Mission One:

It’s 1986 and the new Star Wars weapon system has been compromised. Calvin Painter, a key engineer of the program, has gone missing and only he can redesign it. Both the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and the KGB are in a race to find him. And with intelligence agencies floundering, and possibly infiltrated, former CIA agent and Black Belt Karate expert Charles Knight, an investigative journalist and college lecturer dealing with a failing marriage, is called back into action. From Chicago to San Francisco to Mexico, the race is on and survival is questionable.

Mission Two:

A terrorist raid in Rome goes wrong, but special freelance troubleshooter and agent Phillip Kilroy gets a second chance at taking down a dangerous ISIL terrorist in Barcelona. At risk, though, is the life of an innocent woman.

About the Author

David Mannes has had a multi-faceted career path, as a teacher, an educational writer-program developer, and a film-TV-video producer/director/scriptwriter of educational and promotional films. He was nominated by the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association Awards (A.M.P.I.A.) for his documentary film script ‘Writing-on-Stone’ (1990). He has written a dozen books and novels of varying fiction genres. His latest novel, a riotous coming of age and sequel to his book The Cantor’s Son, Mashed Chromosomes and Other Delights (Club Lighthouse Publishing 2024) has just been released. David’s fifth book in the popular Damien Wynter-Majic 12 series, The Ransom Queen (Club Lighthouse Publishing), was released in June.

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