Mountains Prime Evil by Wade A. Stevenson

About the book

Hoping for a new start in life after the death of his fiancee and his harrowing military experiences in Europe with OPERATION DROPHAMMER and the finding of the Hitler and Nazi WWII plunder-filled Salzdorf mine, Special Agent Steve Scott reports for civilian duty to the U.S. Department of Defense Investigative Service in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where his boss and the new agent soon discover that a violent confrontation between them is inevitable. Steve has a mentor in the upper echelons of the Pentagon who has pulled some strings to have Steve assigned to this particular situation and who plays a continuing undercover role in Steve's new assignment.

One of Scott's routine security clearance investigations involves a senior ranking US Army officer, highly decorated, and an outstanding pillar of his community who is receiving national media attention for commanding the unit constructing levees, reservoirs and dams in poverty stricken areas of Mexico. However, the officer is also a pedophile, rapist and serial murderer viscously insane, and determined at all costs to keep his perversions and drug involvement hidden. Steve's routine investigation unleashes the wrath of the Colonel and his underlings who covertly direct their considerable evil attentions to Scott and those closest to him. This vendetta compounds problems for Scott who still struggles with personal guilt over his fiancee's death. He'd volunteered for the military assignment to England and wonders if she might still be alive had he stayed in the states. Because of this guilt Scott lives with a constant fear of affection, of becoming close to someone, and then losing her as he did his first love.

Ultimately Scott meets and falls in love with a beautiful young lady who bears a remarkable resemblance to his dead fiancee. With his new assignment Scott also meets a wide range of off duty colorful characters who add humor, excitement and story twists, and fellow Special Agents who have gripping experiences of their won in which Scott somehow becomes enmeshed. A motor cycle gang, a barroom clique, a house blown up, and hunting camp all contribute to the maelstrom whirling around Scott.

The story ends with Scott discovering the identity of his nemesis, a harrowing chase and fight which ends with Scott narrowly escaping another assassination attempt, and his making imminent plans for marriage between him and his new ladylove.

About the author

Wade A. Stevenson is a retired Special Agent from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Investigative Service, a Federal Law Enforcement and Investigative Agency. His thirty-five year career with the U.S. Government ranged from performing duty as an armed guard and courier with the Armed Forces Courier Service in Europe, to serving as a U.S. Intelligence Officer. He has worked on counter espionage/espionage cases involving offenders such as Boyce and Lee (the infamous Falcon and Snowman team,) James Durward Harper, William H. Bell, the Navy Walker family and others.

He held an executive position with Presidential and other Departmental Top Secret level clearances in the most secret of all Pentagon operations -- the Black World Special Access Programs Office -- Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Stevenson is the author of numerous Government articles, directives, manuals, regulations, pamphlets, bulletins and classified reports. His unclassified publications have been distributed worldwide to all U.S. military services and branches, to all of our Embassies as well as to each U.S. cleared DoD contractor, i.e. RCA, TRW, Martin-Marietta, el al corporations. His classified writings have reached Congress, Senate and the White House. His first novel, The Salzdorf Wellspring won Wyoming Writer's Inc., Western Horizon Award for Best first novel, 2001. His short story A Special Cup of Coffee will be published in the Rocking Chair Reader Anthology by Adams Media Corporation and distributed on a global scale in September 2004.

His worldwide assignments and travels have involved working closely with the CIA, NSA, FBI, the Secret Services, NASA and numerous other agencies on classified projects.

Mr. Stevenson was born in Gillette, Arkansas and has lived in Wheatland, Wyoming for three years. His undergraduate and some graduate level studies were completed in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific.