I suddenly understood why I was having a hard time writing this book about current spooks and Commanders in Chief and DCIs. And, conversely, why I was having such a good time writing “Death of Innocence,” a story about another era — one of magnificent OSS directors, DCIs, spooks, and a superb Commander in Chief named Harry S Truman.
So I figured that if Hazardous Duty were written as a sort of M*A*S*H Goes to the White House and Langley, maybe readers could appreciate it for that — maybe even get a chuckle, helping them to forget for a minute or so the mess we have in Washington, D.C.
W.E.B. Griffin