He is helped by a disaffected antiterrorist officer from Scotland Yard and also by a mysterious spy, who becomes his lover.

But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers, it did not actively back it.

A disaffected officer with a grudge, or a cause?

Some conspirators, certainly, were cold-blooded pragmatists; others were disaffected front-line officers who had suffered on the Eastern front.

"Conspiracy" is perhaps too strong a term to use in describing varied actions taken by disaffected officers and Congressional delegates unhappy with the course of the war.

Indeed, many analysts believe that disaffected officers may be instigating much of the current unrest in an attempt to preserve their local power or destabilize the central government.

Begun by a group of disaffected Ogadeni officers.

Colonel Honasan and other disaffected officers have insisted on his removal.

Despite the new prospects for stability, the possibility persists of a coup or other action against her government by disaffected officers.

The article also quotes a book published in China in 1993 by an apparently disaffected Chinese military officer.