About
A seventh generation Washingtonian Helen Hynson Vettori served the National Capital Region first by joining the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad as an EMT/Paramedic. Then she taught at a private school in Rockville, Maryland until 2001. Post 9/11, she joined the Department of Homeland Security workforce as the Senior Medical Intelligence Analyst at the Protective Medicine Branch. When that branch was defunded, she transferred to a new position at the National Incident Response Unit. There she performed all aspects of emergency management duties but specialized in planning and preparing for biological incidents to include pandemics. Currently, she lives in Leesburg, VA with her husband. Ms. Vettori and her husband have two grown children both of whom are married and one grandchild.
Featured Work
Missions of Our Moment
Alice Porter thinks her boyfriend, Jimmy Constantine, is one of many killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, until a private investigator, Martin Kohl, and the FBI show up at her door. They allege that Jimmy has joined al Qaeda, and he and Alice have planned to defraud an insurance company for his death benefit. Alice refuses to accept such accusations and is swept up in an underground intrigue while trying to uncover the truth. Trusting only Tucker Boyd, a retired CIA officer, his wife, Thelma, and winning over Martin, the four become personally involved in the War on Terror. When Jimmy finally surfaces, Alice finds herself trapped in the Washington National Cathedral where terrorists plan to detonate a dirty bomb. Then she is forced to decide between the hope of returning to a normal life or the call to expand a clandestine one.
