Greta Schmidt, a beguiling transfer student who pursues Kevin from Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia, to several ports of call in Southeast Asia, and, eventually, to his duty station in El Centro, California. Her continuing interest in the young officer arouses suspicion among Kevin's supervisors, and his assignment to monitor her activities gets him tangles with a crooked Supply Officer, a drug-smuggling Mexican gang, and a turncoat spymaster.
A Tangled Web is a fast-paced spy thriller set against the backdrop of actual Navy war experiences at a time when even the most patriotic of American were questioning our democratic, capitalist system.