Every man feels the need to be a hero for the woman he loves, while every woman holds a hidden desire for a knight in shining armor to sweep her into a life of true love. After twenty-three years, Colonel James Paul Gordon, a retired air force pilot, is thrust into such a position. His lost love, Samantha Marissen, daughter of one of the country's wealthiest men and recently divorced from an emotionally and physically abusive man, is arrested in an unstable foreign land and charged as a spy in an unwarranted retaliatory act against the United States. Past and present collide as Jim Gordon, a man with no family, lays his life on the line to reunite the family of Ed Marissen, his nemesis.
TO GO BEYOND
REBIRTHBy Craig Timothy MichaelsTrafford Publishing
Copyright © 2012 Craig Timothy Michaels
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4669-4929-4Contents
April 29, Wednesday—St. Petersburg, Russia........................................................1April 2, Thursday—United States...................................................................48April 30, Thursday—Outside St. Petersburg, Russia.................................................50April 30, Thursday—Marissen Estate—St. Louis, Missouri......................................52May 1, Friday—Marissen Estate—St. Louis, Missouri...........................................54May 1, Friday—Washington, Missouri................................................................56May 14, Thursday—Outside St. Petersburg—Russia..............................................83May 15, Friday—Marissen Aerospace—St. Louis, Missouri.......................................94May 20, Wednesday—Marissen Estate—St. Louis, Missouri.......................................96May 30, Saturday—Washington, Missouri.............................................................100June 3, Wednesday—Marissen Estate—St. Louis, Missouri.......................................104June 14, Sunday—Outside St. Petersburg, Russia....................................................106June 30, Tuesday—Marissen Estate—St. Louis, Missouri........................................111July 4, Saturday—Neil & Sue's—Glendale, Missouri............................................113July 11, Saturday—Rich & Gina's Home—Kirkwood, Missouri.....................................118July 16, Thursday —Outside St. Petersburg, Russia.................................................128July 18, Saturday—Chesterfield Airport—Chesterfield, Missouri...............................131July 18, Saturday—Naples, Florida.................................................................137July 21, Tuesday—Sonora Complex—Arizona.....................................................156July 21, Tuesday—Naples, Florida..................................................................164July 24, Friday—Naples, Florida—Paradise View...............................................168July 27, Monday—Outside St. Petersburg, Russia....................................................176July 29, Wednesday—Chesterfield Airport—Chesterfield, Missouri..............................182July 31, Friday—Outside St. Petersburg, Russia....................................................186August 3, Monday—Clandestine Meeting..............................................................189August 3, Monday—Sonora Complex, Arizona..........................................................191August 3, Monday—Washington, Missouri.............................................................196August 4, Tuesday—North of Moscow, Russia.........................................................200August 5, Wednesday—Sonora Complex, Arizona.......................................................202August 6, Thursday—Aboard Air Force 1.............................................................209August 6, Thursday—North of Moscow................................................................211August 6, Thursday—Sonora Complex, Arizona........................................................213August 8, Saturday—Marissen Estate—St. Louis, Missouri......................................216August 8, Saturday—AM—Washington, Missouri..................................................217August 8, Saturday—PM—Rich & Gina's Home—Kirkwood, Missouri...........................229August 8, Saturday—PM—27,000' above Oklahoma................................................235August 9, Sunday—4:30am—Sonora Complex, Arizona.............................................249August 9, Sunday—8:00am—Washington, Missouri................................................255August 9, Sunday—8:00am—Sonora Complex, Arizona.............................................257August 10, Monday—3:45pm—North of Moscow....................................................268August 10, Monday—6:45am—Sonora Complex, Arizona............................................273August 15, Saturday—Marissen Estate—St. Louis, Missouri.....................................281August 16, Sunday—Sonoran Desert—Clandestine................................................289August 18, Tuesday—9:50am—Sonora Complex, Arizona...........................................291August 20, Thursday—6:00am—North of Moscow..................................................297August 26, Wednesday—7:30am—Sonora Complex, Arizona.........................................302August 26, Wednesday—7:30pm—Rich & Gina's Home—Kirkwood, Missouri.....................309August 26, Wednesday—Sonora Complex, Arizona......................................................319August 27, Thursday—9:40am—North of Moscow..................................................323August 27, Thursday—7:21pm—Sonora Complex, Arizona..........................................328August 28, Friday—1:45pm—Sonora Complex, Arizona............................................336August 29, Saturday—Late Afternoon—Washington, Missouri.....................................349August 29, Saturday—6:15am—North of Moscow..................................................353August 29, Saturday—6:30am—Sonora Complex, Arizona..........................................357August 30, Sunday-September 2, Wednesday—Washington D.C...........................................367September 4, Friday—8:00am—Sonora Complex, Arizona..........................................380September 5, Saturday—6:37am—North of Moscow, Russia........................................396September 4, Friday—10:10 pm—Sonora Complex, Arizona........................................402September 5, Saturday—9:10am—North of Moscow, Russia........................................405September 5, Saturday—12:15am— Sonora Complex, Arizona......................................407September 5, Saturday—12:20pm—North of Moscow, Russia.......................................413September 5, Saturday—1:20am—Sonora Complex, Arizona........................................424September 5, Saturday—1:37pm—North of Moscow................................................430December 31, 11:15pm—The Marissen Residence.......................................................506Epilogue................................................................................................513
Chapter One
April 29, Wednesday St. Petersburg, Russia
ALTHOUGH THE RUSSIAN CITY'S NORTHERN latitude afforded long, frigid nights, the addition of massive ice blocks from Lake Ladoga coursing through the city's main waterways would quickly lower the temperature, setting into motion late-season snows. Today's storm, a weather system blowing in from the Gulf of Finland, proved such an example with a bone-chilling temperature of minus four degrees centigrade. The bitter biting wind whipped sleet and snow seemingly every direction as Samantha...