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Sergeant Richard Ryan received a United States Army Commendation Medal from the Forty-Second MP Gp (Customs) for his work as a translator and black-market investigator in Germany during the early 1970s.

R. M. Ryan is the author of another novel and two books of poetry.

This novel is dedicated to Steven Unger, who died in November of 2011, late casualty of the war in Vietnam.