The author is a lieutenant in the army, working as a reporter for an army-run television station, and she said she produced the book on her own time, secretly, anticipating trouble.
While working as a lieutenant in the Rwandan intelligence services, Mr Rukimbira was named by relatives of Assiel Kabera - a former ally of Mr Kagame shot dead in 2000 - as a suspect in the killing.
Gary D'Addario, the homicide lieutenant with the Baltimore Police Department and inspiration for the Al "Gee" Giardello character, worked as a consultant and approved the teleplays for accuracy.
"They would casually come up and put their hand on your back or front to check you for a wire," said Joseph Pollini, a retired lieutenant commander who worked as an undercover narcotics officer with the Police Department from 1969 to 1977.
Returning to the army at the war's end, he wrote camp revues and performed communications work, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1961.
His father, who retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel working as a data center manager at the Pentagon, continues to work there as a civilian computer-support manager.
According to a Middle Eastern official, a number of them had worked as lieutenants for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed by a U.S. air strike in 2006 after directing a campaign that killed hundreds of Americans and Iraqi civilians.
So he washed it off and marched back to work as the lieutenant in a detective squad, looking just about the same as he did a week ago.
Lieutenant Nappi joined the Fire Department in 1994, after working as a parole officer for the state and as a case worker for the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, the authorities said.
He then worked for Diệm as a lieutenant in the military security service in Central Vietnam.
