Romero’s Tunnel

About the Book

Moustafa Rajai is an ex-pat Iranian living in Arizona, an engineer working at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS) - the largest NGS in the United States; and he has a problem. He loves the United States, but his dear wife desperately needs something which he can only obtain from MOIS (the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security). Moustafa intends to offer them a quid pro quo, some ‘harmless’ titbits of information concerning the nuclear power station if the Iranian government will grant his wife's sister and her children an exit visa from Iran. But the ‘harmless’ goes out of the deal when MOIS requires certain structural information concerning the retaining walls of Palo Verde....

About the Author

Karl Vincent is my nom de plume. Beginning in 1961, I was seven years a Naval Intelligence Officer, and served a tour in Vietnam. I was then recruited by Air America, serving first at Tan Son Nhut airfield in Saigon, and then at Wattay airfield in Vientiane, Laos. In 1973 I went to work for Sperry-Univac managing a maquila (assembly plant) in Nogales, Mexico. In 1976, I established for myself a corporation to extract precious metals from electronic scrap, first operating in Tempe, Arizona and later in Guadalajara, Mexico. Concurrently in 1978, I established CARI, Inc (Confiscated Aircraft Recovery International) which cooperated with banks, insurance companies and the U. S. Aircraft Theft Bureau in Washington D.C. to recover aircraft stolen in the U.S. and flown to Mexico (by drug traffickers) as well as American aircraft confiscated or stolen while in Mexico. I contracted mercenaries on a job by job basis and ferried them to the site in my Beech Queen Air. I often cooperated with the DEA. The last ten years, prior to retirement in 2005, I worked as a consultant for Hewlett-Packard GmbH in Boeblingen, Germany concerning precious metal recovery from electronic scrap and lectured on this subject at the Fraunhofer Institute, University of Stuttgart. I have fluency in several languages. I currently live in Scottsdale, Arizona.