Dyad

A clown kidnaps Virginia coach Ken Calhoun’s nine year old twins from his evening basketball practice. His daughter escapes His son disappears along with other high profile child-athletes throughout the U.S. Ten years later he coaches the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team, captained by his All-American daughter Kelly, and battles his own government to keep his team drug free. Losing is not an option. When the East Germans, and their outstanding player, Isa Jakobie, demolish the Russians in the preliminaries, his dream explodes. STATE PLAN DYAD had worked. His son reappears, competing against his daughter. Calhoun claws for proof, and accepts the unimaginable. Aided by Sergeant Ham Brown and his community of black Vietnam POWs, fighting a POW cover-up, he kidnaps Isa while on a team trip to the Skyline Caverns. Examination proves gender reassignment. Ham’s men deprogram Isa deep in the Blue Ridge. Jack Ronson, U.S. I.O.C. chair, seizes the political godsend, planning to announce it to the world. When the Germans administer a supervised chromosome test, Isa tests XX, female. Calhoun’s hate takes him over. He turns to the bottle and loses his team. Ham locates a high ranking DYAD defector, responsible for the genetic manipulation, and protects him from Ronson and the E. Germans, at war for his information. Calhoun is reinstated, leading to final-second, Gold Medal decision. Is Isa still a Daughter of the State, or Kelly’s lost brother? Calhoun's attempt to reclaim his son not only propels the Olympics to the edge of collapse, but provokes a Cold War gridlock which threatens world peace.