Nineteen Sixty Nine: A Navy Seal on a secret mission is droppedoff in the Vietnam jungle. A few days later a U.S.gunboatreturns to pick him up but the young captain Lt William Shermanpanics under fire and leaves the Seal behind. Twenty years laterLt Sherman is now an Admiral. A beautiful woman is found dead in her home and Admiral Sherman comes under suspicion. Navy CommanderKaren Lawrence is assigned to conduct her own inquiry with thehelp of a seasoned investigator ex-Marine "Train" von Rensel.Karen soon finds herself confronting a Pentagon hierarchy determined to avoid a scandal even at the cost of the truth. Soonanother friend of the Admiral is found dead and it is apparent that the Seal is back. But he is now a sweeper, an intelligencespecialist who cleans things up when covert operations go wrong.Only this time he is on a personal mission, revenge. This is one of P T Deutermann's earlier novels from 1997. This is a page turner so anyone looking for an older book to read this one iswell worth it.