This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is unintentional.
Real events serve as the framework of this story, inspired by the author’s personal experiences in the 1950’s as a dependent of a Foreign Service officer with the International Cooperation Administration. ICA was the U.S. agency giving economic assistance to Turkey at the height of the Cold War as a result of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan following World War II. ICA, along with the Joint United States Military Mission to Turkey, formed an ambitious United States Overseas Mission to Turkey during the 1950’s. The authors have attempted to depict as accurately as possible the ambience of a real place and time within history, but the immediate events of the story and its characters are a product entirely of their imagination.