| Blindside Contributor(s): Lane, Jim R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1882593596 ISBN-13: 9781882593590 Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: Navy intelligence officer Neal Olen faces the archaic machinery of military justice when he is recognized as the officer on whom a fictional character is based in a salacious novel. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Legal - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002003370 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.74" W x 8.72" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Blindside, written by a former Navy legal officer, is the story of Commander Neal Olen, 44, an intelligence officer who faces charges of adultery and possibly leaking secrets. It is an insider's look at the archaic and potentially crushing machinery of military justice. Olen's troubles begin in 1999 when he is recognized as the officer on whom a fictional character is based in a salacious, tell-all novel. Its author is a woman with whom he had a weekend affair five years earlier while separated from his wife. Information about the nation's reconnaissance satellites somehow found its way into her novel. Olen finds himself a pawn of the author, hoping to hype her book and the Navy, eager to make an example of him in its push for "zero tolerance" of sex scandals and for airtight security on intelligence information. He grapples with the ethical dilemma: When caught in an unjust system, is honesty still a virture? |