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The Paine Protocol: A Cold War Thriller Based on a True Story
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Inspiring Growth Publishing
Published: Jul 4 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some secrets don't stay buried.
When five-year-old Mark Paine Fisher lost his father, Captain Robert T. Paine, USAF, in a 1966 plane crash in West Texas, he was told it was a tragedy.
A small aircraft.
A training flight.
A young father who never came home.
For decades, that was the story.
But grief has a way of leaving clues.
Nearly sixty years later, family silence, missing records, and unanswered questions pull Mark into a Cold War mystery he was never supposed to uncover. What begins as a son's search for the truth becomes a dangerous journey through classified files, buried government secrets, and the long shadow of a father's final mission.
Blending fact, fiction, imagination, and suspense, The Paine Protocol is a gripping spy novella based on a true story about father and son, unfinished love, family legacy, and one haunting question:
What really happened?
Because sometimes the deepest mystery is not only what happened to the father.
It is what happened inside the son.
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