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Bowie Berghdal walked away from his post in Afghanistan for unknown reasons and was captured by the Taliban and held for 5 yrs until he was released as part of an exchange for 5 Taliban. But what if the exchange didn’t take place and he escaped from the Taliban and headed to parts unknown? This is where the fictional part of the story begins.

The story really gets going about 20% in.

“She was the dream you remember in the occasional long dark night
when the span of years between then and now is empty of everything but painful regret”

“The game of poker is one of the great undiscovered tools of psychological investigation. You get to the core so quickly. Play seven-card stud with a man for seven hours, and you will know more about his basic character—about the springs that turn his clock—than his wife, his girlfriend, or his tax consultant will ever know.”

"The silky note of a saxophone. The echoes of a woman’s high heels down a deserted asphalt street. Steam rising from city vents to cloud the street-lit air. A man with a gun. A dame with a problem…"