The Foreign Service Journal, November 2004

faces the test of her life when she’s assigned to cover the presumed terrorist attack. The story she digs up challenges conventional assumptions and puts her life in danger. Conflicting Loyalties is a gripping tale of personal courage in the context of grand-scale intrigue and power lust. It explores issues of patriotism and honesty in a complex world where easy definitions of right and wrong don’t always fit the facts. Retired FSO Harry Caicedo spent 20 years with USIA, serving in Washington, Miami, Peru and Mexico. He opened the first Voice of America bureau in Latin America. A longtime resident of Miami, this is his first work of fiction. Savarona J. Patrick Hart, PublishAmerica, 2004, $19.95, paperback, 218 pages. Istanbul’s sights, sounds and scents permeate this darkly comic first novel of international and bureau- cratic intrigue set at the crossroads of East and West. Bill Bigelow is a drifter with a his- tory of mental illness and a habit of removing his clothes at the worst possible times. When he lapses into psychosis, his only hope is George McCall, a junior diplomat with demons of his own, both real and imagined. “Hart has a rare gift for making his characters three- dimensional (even if what some of them do is frankly unbelievable),” wrote Steve Honley in his review of Savarona in the Foreign Service Journal (September 2004). “Hart also captures, as well as any Foreign Service writer I’ve ever encountered, the rhythm of life overseas, the excitement and ennui of consular work, and the tensions of balancing work and a per- sonal life.” J. Patrick Hart (pseudonym) is an FSO who has served in Istanbul, Melbourne, USNATO Brussels and in Washington, D.C. F O C U S N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 4 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 33 The Embassy Plan Overseas Insurance Personal Auto & Contents Coverage Experience that helps you avoid the pitfalls of a highly complex business. Repeat business that results from providing what’s best for the customer not the agent nor the insurance company. Since 1969, Harry M. Jannette International has provided dependable coverage with U.S. carriers with a financial rating of A+ or higher to thousands of Foreign Service Personnel worldwide. Thus you gain the broadest U.S. terms and conditions and flexible value limits often not available from other insurance carriers. MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED: SEE OUR WEBSITE APPLICATIONS Harry M. Jannette International, L.L.C. 8111 LBJ Freeway, Suite 585 Dallas, Texas 75251-1334 Toll Free (800) 256-5141 (972) 783-4915 Fax (972) 783-0545 E-mail: hmjintl@jannetteintl.com www.jannetteintl.com • WORLDWIDE COVERAGE Fire, theft, comprehensive and collision protection are available at foreign posts. • U.S. AUTO LIABILITY Available for short term on home leave, change of assignment, and new auto purchase prior to foreign departure. This coverage must be issued in combination with an “Embassy Plan” policy. • FOREIGN LIABILITY Contact your post for compliance with local laws, Excess liability limits are available over local liability coverage. • PERSONAL COVERAGE Household goods and transit, valuable articles, personal liability, life insurance . • EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION INSURANCE Employee association insurance Including directors and officers. Your Reliable Choice