Dead Men Don't Jump

Book excerpt: Dr. Robert Hamm has newly arrived at Lindsey Air Station in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he is assigned to perform the autopsy on General Beauregard Jackson, a WWII hero who was mortally injured in a parachute accident. The autopsy reveals that the General was poisoned prior to his fatal jump, but base commanders want to suppress this information. Dr. Hamm's attempt to discover the truth of the General's death places him in the cross-hairs of a group of unrepentant Nazis and their American collaborators. Hamm struggles to know whom to trust with what he has learned, information that could get him killed. Military Brass wants to sweep the findings of Hamm's autopsy under the rug until the crash of a transport plane compounds the mystery with Hamm finding an unidentified body on board. As he investigates against the advice of his commanding officer, Hamm unwittingly pulls his new girlfriend into the intrigue, but Nurse Nancy Johansen has secrets of her own that she is trying to hide. As the son of a preacher, Hamm was taught that the truth will set you free, but he quickly learns that the truth can also get you killed.