The Last Boomerang

<div class=Section1><p class=MsoNormal>It is late 1955. From tumultuous Nicosia snooping US Navycrews regularly taunt the Soviet giant with their Boomerang surveillanceflights north into the Pond - the Black Sea.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><st1:place>Nasser</st1:place> is in power in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region><st1:country-region><st1:place>Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> isindependent and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Great Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>is retrenching her <st1:place>Middle East</st1:place> forces to newly strategic<st1:country-region><st1:place>Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<spanstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>There at the center of waning Britishinfluence these flights superimpose Cold War tensions on the brittle politicsof the region while in <st1:State><st1:place>Washington</st1:place></st1:State>they fuel inter-service rivalries and stir up memories and paybacks longoverdue.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Against a backdrop of seething Cypriot tensions and growingterrorism one American crew bravely pursues an important intelligence catchand their story spins out against the unusual ethical and romantic conflict theirpilot faces as he grapples with the drive to protect his men and at the sametime perform his top secret mission.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Wewatch the Beast the specialized American surveillance <span class=GramE>aircraft</span>take center stage in the lives of its crew in their adventures on a dark nightin a strange part of the world.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><spanclass=GramE>Cypriot patriots and Cold Warriors the British and (as thealluring Czech spy-for-hire describes them) the not so British churn towarda showdown engineered by a crafty American intelligence master.</span><spanstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Finally we watch as an American Admiral and a British FieldMarshall - both historical personages - maneuver to insure that greater valuesare preserved as they cope with the fallout from the highly chargedintersection of their national interests.</p></div>