NO ESCAPE In the upland hills of Vermont sits the small town of Gilchrist, the scenic heart of the Northeast Kingdom region. It’s also home to a high-tech twenty-first century Alcatraz — America’s most advanced maximum-security penitentiary....
As the two largest, most powerfully equipped naval fleets in history move slowly toward each other near Islas Piedras — an American missile site in the Indian Ocean that threatens Russia's grip on the Middle East — two men stand in the darkened...