Secret Orders is a novel written by Carlisle Scott about things he witnessed when he was a young soldier with the U.S. Army in the Cold War Germany of the early 1960’s. A few years ago he came across an old photo taken just after he had spent six weeks on patrol on the east-west German border. This old photo brought back overwhelming memories of horrendous atrocities he had to maintain silence about for many decades. News reporters were kept away from areas where atrocities happened to prevent them from reporting news that could inflame the public and might start a war. With the end of the cold war, events on the east-west border are now coming out. Secret Orders is the first novel of its kind to expose these atrocities, which were never previously released to the public. Far West Publishing Co., ISBN: 0-89540-427-3, pp. 258, $20.00