Busted

<p> This book picks up where <I>Passing Time: A Vietnam Veteran Against the War</I> left off and completes the trilogy begun with <I>Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir</I>. It begins with the Coast Guard raid on Ehrhart's oil tanker and ends with the conclusion of his trial for possession of controlled substances a span of time that corresponds almost exactly with the opening of the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on the impeachment of Richard Nixon and Nixon's resignation and pardon by Gerald Ford. </p><p> Along the way Ehrhart encounters a wise and sympathetic lawyer an MG Midget a local New Jersey cop who thinks he's Wyatt Earp New York City detectives who arrest him for armed robbery of a liquor store a forklift that can turn on a dime a Coast Guard prosecutor who wants to teach Ehrhart a lesson the Carranza Memorial and three ghosts who are as real as you and me. </p>