1 One year minus three days. Colour Sergeant George Hayman was counting the days, but not for the reasons he had expected. When his commander had told him that he was to be a foreign-military exchange liaison with the Americans of the 160th Night Stalkers 5th Battalion E Company, his protests fell on deaf ears. “They’re the most advanced helicopter company the Yanks have flying, sergeant. Besides, you are one of the very few who has the security clearance they require.” Because of your family connections, he didn’t say. George’s father was an unspecified, but very highly placed official in MI-6, the foreign intelligence service. It had made Father’s life easier for George and Mother to be cleared to SC status or better. It had let Father sit in the parlor with them while reading throu

