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<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)><em>Why did a US general kill his own son then shoot a Pentagon rival? And who mailed the murder weapon to reporter Wat Tyler?</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>June1976: Crime reporter Wat Tyler is plunged into Washington DC's political shark-tank when his pal Johnny Tedstone and Pentagon big-shot Keith Zetchik are murdered on the same night in the same neighbourhood.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The prime suspect is General Joseph Holy Joe Tedstone - Johnny's dad and Zetchik's bitter rival.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Still worse Johnny had told Tyler the previous evening that his dad was planning the double murder. However Tyler ignored the prediction because Johnny was drunk and stoned.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Filled with self-recrimination Tyler - a Special Forces veteran - discovers Holy Joe and Zetchik served together as friends in Vietnam but became implacable enemies over war crime allegations.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Tyler's investigation takes on an even darker significance when he encounters Kim Lamb a CIA double agent who is also probing the Tedstone-Zetchik incident.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>She reminds Tyler of a young spy killed in Saigon when an undercover operation went badly wrong. And he must defeat his own demons to untangle ominous links between then and now.</span></p>