The Palace Guard

J A Liebert 3 stories

Summary

Palace Guard is about a dark world of military counterinsurgency warfare in which US Special Forces Officers act out dangerous roles as rogue killers to check shadowy Russian intel Unit 29155 mission to destabilize Western Democracies. The Mighty Mites, a small but lethal unit of Special Forces officers directly under command of National Security Council was designed for unconventional warfare with Soviet counterpart of Main Intelligence Directorate aka GRU. This war has no boundaries and strikes at our heartland and therefore is told in context of engagements among four University of Wisconsin grads who rendezvous after weathering The Days of Rage. One, a social worker from New York joins a local debutante to recruit Vietnam Veterans Against the War. They get their big one during summer sessions on campus, Captain Joseph Fazio, But, he's deep cover for army intel assigned to Operation Bird Dog, tracking POWs recycled by Soviet Military Intel into the US. Fazio returns to his control speaking only German. The fourth grad, Psychiatrist, Dr Fritz, is left to figure it out through use of truth serum. . What he learns is not only shocking but endangers the life of his patient and himself as he is drawn into this web of grads, compelled to find the truth of all swept up in a cyclical storm of history. It ends with Epiphany for three in solitude, but for one in violent shock.