The Fog of War, Russia With Love, China Mission and Other Slices of Life

After a lifetime of reporting all over the world, after writing eight thrillers and one unusual cookbook, and after a stint as a university professor, I finally retired. But my muse grabbed hold of me once again and I have written a collection of essays that I hope the reader will savor as much as I savored living them and writing about them. THE FOG OF WAR tells of a traumatic situation in which I came within seconds of shooting and killing a man I believed to be a Vietcong assassin. ARMEGEDON OVER CUBA tells a first-person account of how close the United States came during the Cuban Missile Crisis to a full-scale nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. RUSSIA WITH LOVE relates how the Russians kept throwing beautiful young women at me in hopes of unmasking me as a CIA agent. CHINA MISSION tells how Chinese officials showed me a super-secret underground bomb shelter in Beijing as part of a clever ploy to open military-to-military talks with the United States. Join me in reliving 33 experiences of a lifetime.

After a lifetime of reporting all over the world, after writing eight thrillers and one unusual cookbook, and after a stint as a university professor, I finally retired. But my muse grabbed hold of me once again and I have written a collection of essays that I hope the reader will savor as much as I savored living them and writing about them. THE FOG OF WAR tells of a traumatic situation in which I came within seconds of shooting and killing a man I believed to be a Vietcong assassin. ARMEGEDON OVER CUBA tells a first-person account of how close the United States came during the Cuban Missile Crisis to a full-scale nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. RUSSIA WITH LOVE relates how the Russians kept throwing beautiful young women at me in hopes of unmasking me as a CIA agent. CHINA MISSION tells how Chinese officials showed me a super-secret underground bomb shelter in Beijing as part of a clever ploy to open military-to-military talks with the United States. Join me in reliving 33 experiences of a lifetime.

William Beecher is a Pulitzer prize winning former Washington correspondent for The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times who, in more than twenty-five years based in Washington, made annual two to three-month reporting trips around the world. He also served two tours in the government: two years in the Defense Department, rising to the rank of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (Acting), ten years as Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and seven years as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland. He is a Knight in the Ancient Order of St. John of Medina. Previous novels include Mayday Man, Submerged Rage, The Acorn Dossier, Nuclear Revenge, The KGB Hoax, Arabella Undercover and Double Agent Stallion.