I chose a part of Florida that even a lot of Floridians don't know anything about, for where we're going to take the reader and where we're going to take Jack [Swyteck] and this kidnapper's victim: it's the Florida Aquifer.
If you want the inside story of what was being said and done at the top levels of U.S. government from the September 11th attacks until the fall of Saddam Hussein, you can ask one of two men -- Army General Tommy Franks, or Marine Corps General Mike DeLong, who was Franks' deputy.