Edward F Koehler

Lieutenant Richard Diamond is riding high. His career is solid in Quantico, Virginia, he can fish in the creek behind is cabin just outside DC, he's up for a promotion, and he's dating a beautiful woman. Little does he know a new assignment will plunge him body, mind, and spirit into the Iraqi desert. The assignment seems easy enough: deliver night vision goggles and laser targeting computers to SEAL Team One. More like a babysitting job, he thinks.Wrong. As the delivery gets underway, Richard and SEAL Team One come under heavy fire. Evading the enemy, they become deeply embroiled in shock and awe as the Iraq War of 2003 gets underway. Two days in, Richard and his team are called off the dangerous forward targeting mission and sent to track down the disposition of WMDs-Weapons of Mass Destruction. How they escape a column of advancing Iraqi Army Guard will have you turning pages as fast as you can read.Based on real incidences and real people, Richard Diamond, USMC drops you into the middle of the action, right alongside SEAL Team One and the rapid domination strategy the US launched to eventually bring down Saddam Hussein.Richard Diamond, USMC, is the first in a series of fast-paced adventure novels.Although based on actual events, the names, locations, and crises in this novel have been changed and partially fabricated. Any relationship to any persons, real or imagined, is completely coincidental.

Richard Diamond is on vacation in Cancun Mexico, the beaches are white sand and the water is azure blue. Warm days and cool nights, life is great. Then Richard receives a distress call on his home phone back in Virginia. He is soon whisked away from Mexico and sent deep into the newly emerging conflict in the Ukraine. Two British spies have been captured and one of them has sent Richard a distress call. This plunges Richard into the bribery and corruption of the Secretary of State, Harriet Clifton and the sale of the United States support for its allies. Richard and the CIA are soon tracking down the evidence needed to show the collusion between the sitting president, Barry O'Brien and his Secretary of State, Harriet Clifton; with the Russians and other corrupt characters within the government.Richard CIA is the second in a series of spy novels that follow our reluctant hero from his time in the Marine Coupe in Richard Diamond USMC. The characters portrayed are based partly on personal experience and associations with the characters portrayed. The incidents, locations, and characters are based on real people that live their live out in the news every day. This is the story behind the news. Richard Diamond and the other protagonist portrayed in Richard Diamond CIA place their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the line every day to defend freedom and the United States in the far-reaching corners of the globe.