Posted: 7/10/2007 4:18:16 PM EDT
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Hi Everyone, I am a writer (hence the name) who is trying to finish up the first novel (military fiction) for submission for publication. Now that's a long shot, but I need your help, if you're willing to offer suggestions. The question is most likely going to best be answered by veterans although there may be others reading this who'd like to chime in with thoughts based on best guess, experience, or just plain common sense. The scene I'm trying to write properly happens in the South Pacific in the early 1960's when a nuclear missile test causes an EMP side effect in Hawaii and also on a Russian spy trawler. My question is this. If the commander of the Russian trawler in question gets his crew off the vessel, and subsequently defects, would the U.S. accept him as a defector, and would the U.S. assist in the defection of his family still located in Russia? Or would he be picked up, interrogated, and ultimately disappear? What would be the things that guide this decision process? While its fiction, I'm trying to make this as close to reality as possible and hence the question. It may be better to post the chapter I'm referring to, and I'm happy to do that online, so if you prefer to read prior to answering, let me know and I'll post over in frugalsquirrel. Thanks in advance. Writer |
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About the family first off it depends on if the Russian government know he defeated or not if they do know this commander defeated more then likely they are going to kill his family. If they do not know they would keeping an eye on the family until they found his body. Now I know there where a few Vietnamese guys who helped us out a lot that where told that they would be taken to the U.S.A because they helped us out so much and a lot of them never got here. This is just my $0.02 worth. |
1960, he would have been a valuable source of information. accepted as defector, and his family too. cf. shah of Iran |
| Here's the link to the first chapter. Thanks to everyone for their feedback. Chapter 1 |
| so...is this about the russian captian? or the chinese... either way, I'd buy it. although I saw one thing, the russians used both miles and kilometers in their mesaurments of distance, wouldn't they just use the metric system? I dont know if this kindof bothered anyone else, but i'm kindof ocd when it comes to things like that. It's great though, I cant wait for it to hit the shelves. do you have a progected date? |
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This is definitely about the russian captain. He defects after faking his death via scuttling his ship and is picked up in the water by an American crew. Thanks for noting the KM vis MI piece as that needs to be consistent. I've not got a publisher yet, really need to get an agent first and that's the part I'm going to start here shortly. Writer |