Free A Twist in Time by Frank J. Derfler

version and in every way for the better.  She was more sophisticated, more educated, better groomed, and she was a political Conservative.  She had gone through a short marriage and divorce, but she said she learned a lot from the experience.
     
    In 1994 Janet was a forensic account analyst in the Justice Department, a job she said was like being an investigator who never left the office. Suddenly, she was "Sent to the field" to infiltrate Bill's small company.  The money flowing into Bill’s research group from an Indonesian-based conglomerate raised alarms at Justice. U.S. and international police organizations were already watching the Indonesian-based trading group run by a Chinese cartel family and they wanted to know why money from China and Indonesia was flowing into a small research firm working on the sandy beach in Destin, Florida. Janet’s interest in American and world history fit the profile of a job solicitation Bill issued and Janet was sent to get the job and infiltrate his company.      
     
    A few months after Janet started work, Bill hired a bright young Air Force officer from Eglin Air Force Base to work evenings and weekends on programming. That’s how Ted Arthurs became involved. Sally entered the picture as a communications consultant, with an electrical engineering degree from Georgia Tech, who Bill hired to establish better communications with Indonesia.  
     
    The whole team was eventually called to Indonesia where they learned how the Chinese conglomerate had, practically by accident, developed the technology to send a small object back in time.  The team was initially seduced by the idea of preventing the Vietnam War, but eventually found that changing those events led to a nuclear confrontation between the US and Russia over Cuba. After the intervention of an Air Force Air Commando team in Indonesia, Bill and Sally were escorted back to the US and admonished to forget everything they knew. Janet left Indonesia with U.S. Federal Agents and Ted and Sally held bitter feelings about her role as a government spy. After 911, Ted became the center of a Department of Defense activity, led by then Colonel Fred Landry PhD in physics, to understand and utilize the time tunneling capability.   
     
    After her adventure in Indonesia and the Department of Defense takeover of the technology, Janet went back to her desk job in DC and specialized in finding criminal activities in government.  Government-paid tuition helped her to earn her PhD in history from George Mason University through a night and weekend program. 
     
    At the Justice Department, she helped send Representative and USAF Combat Ace Duke Cunningham to prison in 2005 for bribery and then turned her attention to the squalid mess created by Representative John Murtha.  She contributed to the prosecution of some corporate types around Murtha, but they never found the man himself with a smoking gun. Murtha would never admit to his crimes as Cunningham had done, so they needed concrete evidence that was hard to get. 
     
    When the Justice Department was taken over by Liberals in 2009, she knew she had no future.  Disgusted and frustrated by what she knew was happening at the Department of Justice and in the House of Representatives, she sent out her resumes.  That's how she got the job teaching history at Georgia Tech. 
     
    After the first hour with Janet, it was all Bill could do to keep from dancing on the Ritz-Carlton's table.  The very table, he hoped, where Ted had convinced Sally to come with him to re-join the Project in Destin.  
     
    Everything between them moved very quickly.  In fact, Bill never spent a night in his Ritz Carlton hotel room.  They kept telling each other they had to make up for lost time and giggling at the inside joke.  The next weekend they were in Las Vegas being married and then wearing costumes from history at the Boulder City unit's Halloween party to carry on the joke. 
     
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