The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel

About the Book

In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice President Harriet Styles its candidate for the Presidency. The task of apprehending the shooter falls to Richard Thatcher, the Director of the FBI, and Thatcher dispatches his protégé Barbara Collins to Paris to lead the investigation. Barbara's quest takes her to the edge of the Arabian Peninsula then back to Paris where she uncovers evidence that suggests a domestic American plot. Candidate Harriet Styles mounts a bitter campaign that condemns the FBI for its failure to apprehend the terrorist assassin. Thatcher, determined to protect his embattled agency, mounts a parallel investigation. A sympathetic American public elects the grieving widow to the highest office in the land. Before the inauguration, Thatcher identifies the shooter and in doing so shakes the very foundations of the American political system.

About the Author

A graduate of West Virginia University, Robert L Skidmore spent thirty-five years in the foreign service of the United States Government. Now long retired, he devotes himself to two lifelong passions, historical research and writing, both of which allow him to play with his computers. Mr. Skidmore is the author of the eight volume Satterfield Saga, the four volume Richard Thatcher series, and a one volume work, The Silicon Wizards. He also edited a novel, Which Way From Here, written by his uncle Hobert Douglas Skidmore who was working on the story at the time of his death in 1969.