then there was a loud click and my oppo in south carolina came on and told me i should know that colonel david c. brubaker , fort bird 's special forces co , had been found that morning with two bullets in his head in an alley in a crummy district of columbia , which was south carolina 's capital city , and which was all of two hundred miles from the north carolina golf course hotel where he had been spending his holiday furlough with his wife .