In 1984 while riding an airliner from Phoenix to Dallas, a business associate began sharing with me about things he had done in a former life (it had been government work) and how it had involved subliminal communication techniques.
Along about that same time I had become interested in the Windecker Eagle, one of the earliest composite aircraft, designed by Dr. Leo Windecker, a dentist who worked for Dupont. The Windecker almost made it into production and was studied by the government because of the potential for stealth derived from its all composite construction.
A third element went into the mix as the plot for Eagle Behind the Curtain began to develop. A friend of mine, female in her mid-twenties, left her job as a Red Cross worker in Vietnam to travel across the Soviet Union on the Trans Siberian Railway. She did this alone in 1972. The idea of a woman traveling alone across Russian was fascinating to me, so it became part of the book.
Eagle Behind the Curtain was a finished product back in the early 1990s, but more pressing issues sent it to the back burner.
Now, the book is being made public, with the goal of attracting a movie deal. It's the kind of adventure story that would make a good screenplay.
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