TERRAPIN Group Publishing LLC

Is the "truth" fact or fiction?

A few days before Christmas 1963, a five-alarm fire at a storage plant in West Dallas touches off an explosive reaction that will last decades, incinerating the beliefs of millions, and shattering the faith we have in our leaders.

But for a team of government psychics and ex-Marine Mark Reynolds, it is personal. His memory, lost in an accident years earlier, is suddenly returning. However, he is recalling the future as well as the past.

In an impossible race against time, going both directions, he must protect those who have protected him, so that the truth can be revealed. But, at what cost?

Fred Balmain sat at the gray WWII-era Steelcase desk in his office near Main and Griffith Streets. The commercial space had been vacant since early summer, and was now being used as one of the covert command posts for the Dallas FBI agents working the JFK assassination investigation. Agents from other US Government offices were coming and going throughout the day and night, and the Director felt it would be better if they came and went from somewhere other than the Dallas Field Office.

Tall and lanky, Balmain was a bit earthier than the Director usually liked in his agents, but he certainly met the standards. He lived for truth, justice and America and would vocally, or physically oppose anyone who intimated something to the contrary. Barely forty years old, he was a farm-boy-turned-soldier in WWII, who had demonstrated bravery on the battle field and discernment in Headquarters. Even though he had never been to college, he had a depth of knowledge and breadth of experience that made him an intellectual equal of many senior officers. So they promoted him - first to lieutenant and then to captain by the end of the war. He returned home with a Silver Star, Purple Heart, and numerous other commendations.