Diane L Thompson

Into the Fold Diane L Thompson

It's 1942 and a woman of Asian lineage collapses at a Maryland roadside. Is she an escapee from one of the local prisoner-of-war facilities, or worse, an infiltrator? She doesn't understand Japanese or any Asian language spoken to her. Her clothes are of an odd material and cut, her bloodwork is off in ways they can't identify, and her eyes are frightening. Dr. Richard Hall, the treating physician, discovers bruises on the woman that are similar to the injuries found on test pilots flying secret aircraft out of a local government airbase. An OSS agent believes the woman to be an escapee but from where? No internment camps are anywhere near the area. The only other option is that she is infiltrating and her amnesia is a ruse. If she is an infiltrator, how did she enter the country and what caused her injuries? Is she using her injuries to play on his sympathies? A writer of science fiction is the only one to imagine the young visitor is from a more distant place than Japan. Now he must convince a pragmatic physician and a too cynical OSS agent of his findings and he has to do it before the government takes her away.