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William Prochnau

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Walter Prochnau (1937- ) is an American journalist. His work on the Vietnam War while at the Seattle Times landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. His Vanity Fair magazine article "Adventures in the Ransom Trade" was inspiration for the 2000 film Proof of Life. His novel Trinity's Child was the basis for 1990's By Dawn's Early Light. He also wrote Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles. Prochnau won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1988 to research and write about the media as it operated in the Vietnam war and its aftermath. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Prochnau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Proof of Life

Proof of Life

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

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2000

By Dawn's Early Light

By Dawn's Early Light

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.

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1990