The Academy by David Poyer

Author:David Poyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Back at the detention center, a depression so bottomless he could hardly think mastered him. Burke-Bowden had left a message. The deputy supe wanted to know how the trial was going, when he’d be back, but Dan didn’t feel like returning the call.

In the detention unit’s common area, he tried to watch the news. But his brain kept shunting off into worry. Let’s say they give me ten years. Most likely in a German prison, since the plaintiffs were German nationals. “We may petition the court to let you serve it here, however,” his attorney had said. “Rather than in Berlin, or Munich.”

Just … fucking … great. Either purgatory or hell. Although Scheveningen was more like limbo. It wasn’t unpleasant here. A physical therapist, a library, a gym … and he’d stayed in BOQs with less comfortable beds.

But he could get an even longer sentence. Though he didn’t think it would be life, like Mladic, Charles Taylor, Slobodan Milosevic, and the Ugandans and Congolese who’d been found guilty of genocide. Or Bosco Ntaganda, convicted of murder, rape, sex slavery, and recruiting child soldiers.

But whatever his sentence, he’d have to deal with Ratko Mladic. Sooner rather than later.

And he’d have to resign, both his superintendency and his commission. He hadn’t looked into it yet, but conviction might cost him his retirement benefits, depending on how the Navy interpreted the law. He’d only see Nan, and Blair, briefly, through reinforced glass, for years.

And why? Because he’d turned himself in. He’d turned himself in.

What a bonehead move. The black tide rose again. He put his head in his hands.

He was sitting like that when the guard came for him. He had a visitor.

“Is it a woman?” he asked hopefully.

“No. Your attorney.”

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