Vanished - Christie, Richard B
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Book Synopsis: At an unusual Wednesday morning briefing, a request was made by the Department of Defense (DOD) asking the Navy Special Investigation Unit (NSIU) to open a search into the strange disappearance of a top U. S. weapons scientist. When the NSIU investigators looked into it, they found he had been working on a very special long-range rifle project; and thus determined that he had most likely been kidnapped as a result. Ten days after his disappearance, he was found. Someone had dropped him off by the emergency room door of a hospital in Las Vegas; they then called the ER staff, told…mehr

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Book Synopsis: At an unusual Wednesday morning briefing, a request was made by the Department of Defense (DOD) asking the Navy Special Investigation Unit (NSIU) to open a search into the strange disappearance of a top U. S. weapons scientist. When the NSIU investigators looked into it, they found he had been working on a very special long-range rifle project; and thus determined that he had most likely been kidnapped as a result. Ten days after his disappearance, he was found. Someone had dropped him off by the emergency room door of a hospital in Las Vegas; they then called the ER staff, told them where he was, quickly hung up, and disappeared without further comment. The ER staff found him severely injured, unconscious, and in critical condition. The investigation quickly exposed strange activities from the North Korean government. They set up troop movements at the South Korean border, provided false identification for their officials to enter the USA, and supported active spying interests into American weapons development and activities. It opened the door for help from the State Department (DOS), the FBI, and Congress. What started as a simple kidnapping case became a major chase to find exactly how the enemy heard of the special project, stop them from getting an unauthorized trail of information, and end the international impact it could have. Autobiography: Richard B. Christie had a long career, where he owned and operated a company that commissioned, validated, and certified commercial and industrial environmental air distribution systems that included many Clean Rooms for Hospitals, Research Laboratories, and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing facilities. Both domestic and international, it included many years of traveling and working abroad. For more than 50 years, when at home, he spent many winter weekends volunteering in mountain rescue efforts as an active Certified Patroller and National Ski Patrol member. Now retired, he has found the time to write exciting stories of mystery and adventure that bring the reader to many far-off places worldwide. As an avid fan of America's history, he also does historical reenactment at several National Parks and Monuments as a volunteer to help bring history alive for the many visitors to the National Park Service. Christie and his wife Lee currently reside in Florida with several rescued dogs that they have adopted.
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Richard B. Christie was born in New Jersey in 1944.When he got out of school and finished his time in the Navy, he created and owned a technical engineering company that performed testing, balancing, and critical adjustments on many industrial-grade air-conditioning and high-performance sterile systems; for almost fifty years. Those systems are used in hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, and research laboratories. They include special areas where high-class clean rooms are required, such as surgeries, sterile suites for production, and special testing facilities. Much of that work included writing and preparing the technical specifications and validation procedures needed for those systems. Once he retired from the business world, that writing experience proved to be the inspiration needed to prepare for a literary future.The work took place in various countries and locations worldwide, and he frequently needed to travel abroad. Thus, it seemed inevitable that he would be fascinated by the world's historical sites, locations, and events. When he was not traveling overseas, he found himself at home or skiing in Vermont most winter weekends. As a member of the National Ski Patrol System and as a Certified Patroller at a major Vermont Ski area, he was trained in advanced first aid and remote mountain rescue procedures. Once retired, a love for the reenactment of early American history just seemed to be a normal result. Of course, living in Florida, the early Spanish period was what he would be involved with. Thus, he joined several groups of reenactors in nearby Saint Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied city in North America.Working as a volunteer reenactor, he again found himself demonstrating and describing many of the historical actions and daily events of the 16th, through the 19th centuries, to the many visitors who came to see the town.While traveling, he had always enjoyed reading many mystery and suspense novels written by many famous authors. That made him want to create stories that exhibited many of those special features.