The Adults in the Room Deep State Second Edition!!!

By Jeffrey Mechling and Kathleen Ryder

Retired CIA Agent Tim Hall is having memory problems but he fears that what he can't remember may come back to haunt him.

Tim has been diagnosed with something called retrograde amnesia  after a traffic accident. An accident that took the life of his wife Pam. Forced to retire, Tim settles in Baltimore where he spends most of his time at a local bar named the Blue Goose. He is attracted to the owner and bartender, Mary Ann, but is uncertain about pursuing her. Desperate to recover his memory, he agrees to travel to the Dominican Republic to participate in a stem cell trial. Suddenly, people who know about Tim's past begin to surface. Why now, and is Mary Ann somehow involved?

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Good As Gone Group
• Release date: Jun 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393784333

Jeffrey Mechling

Jeffrey Mechling was raised in a family full of secrets. His maternal grandfather was thought to be an agent in the OSS who made several trips to Germany before WW2. Although Mechling grandfather was never known to have served in the military, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with the rank of Major.  A number of other Mechling family members seemed to have jobs with the United States Government that they “just could not talk about”. Mr. Mechling is himself an Analysis with a not so secret government agency and is married to the artist Kathleen Ryder. They reside in Northern Virginia.

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Chapter 1

TIM HALL WAS A FORMER spy for the Central Intelligence Agency. As a matter of fact, his official title was Case Officer and he spent much of his career in Central America. In 1981, Tim participated in the training of a paramilitary group known as the Contras and participated in the fighting of the Nicaragua civil war. Although this was a very controversial time in the United States, Tim was proud of his contribution and had no problem telling his friends at The Blue Goose about his exploits. The problem was that no one believed that Tim had ever been out of the City of Baltimore Maryland, much less a spy and Tim really had no way to prove that he did what he claimed. Unlike the local Police Departments, The Central Intelligent Agency did not issue "Retired Spy Identifications. As a matter of fact, the Agency was more than happy if their former employees did not brag about their exploits. The only thing Tim could prove related to his United States government employment was the two years spent working as a clerk for the Social Security Administration. He had been assigned to work there after he had recovered from the accident. The accident that took the life of his wife Pam and about four years of his memories.

Tim had woken up at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with little idea how he had arrived there. A world class hospital, the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center was known to save the lives of those who would or should have died if they had not been treated within what was known as the Golden Hour. The general concept of the so-called Golden Hour was in cases of severe trauma, such as internal bleeding, required surgical intervention within 10 minutes of the accident. Other issues such as shock may also occur if the person was not treated appropriately. Patients whom did not receive treatment with such injuries within this time frame often died sometime days or even weeks later but if treatment could be administered within the Golden Hour, the survival improved exponentially. This was however not without controversy since some in the medical community felt that the complications that a survivor would be forced to live with may not outweigh the benefit of death, but such subjects were not openly discussed.

After Tim recovered from his traumatic injuries, he was transferred to John Hopkins Hospital