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Disaster Plan blends realistic pro football action with the evils of gambling, drugs, greed and power. An aggressive tabloid sports columnist, Casey will face numerous gut-wrenching moral and ethical decisions that arent in black or white. While pursuing this story from Berlin to Los Angeles, Casey becomes romantically involved with Sun flight attendant Suzy Peters. The newspapermans allies include Miami P. M. managing editor Larry Bloom, sports writer Jorge Cunill, Miami police Maj. Leroy Hess, Sun Air Capt. Dick Norton and team chaplain Father Francis J. OMalley. When a Sun Air DC-10 charter bringing the Sharks home to Miami after a Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas crashes in the Everglades killing his pal Cunill, Casey dedicates himself to breaking the baffling case that features a laundry list of possible saboteurs. As he appears ready to break the case, the saboteurs kidnap Suzy. When the FBI and police flounder, a most unlikely group aids Casey.
About the author
A veteran newspaperman with stops in Boston, New York, Miami and Hollywood, Fla., Ed Plaisted is a sports columnist with the Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal. He can trace his history in Berlin from 1957 when he was in the Seventh Army to today. He has been there before, during and after The Wall. His background included time as a Florida police media information officer. He received technical advice from retired Army Military Police Colonel Verner Pike of the 287th MP Co., Berlin Brigade. This is Plaisted’s second novel. DISASTER PLAN was published in 2002. His third novel, THE IMPOSTOR WORE NUMBER 13, is being edited.
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