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Saving RFK: A Political Thriller
Saving RFK is a political thriller about a fictional attempt on Bobby Kennedy’s life during the Indiana primary in 1968. It is the story of eighteen-year-old Ethan Taylor, a small town Hoosier newspaper reporter. His paper’s editor is a Klansman. His father sets off car bombs for The Teamsters. His roommate’s uncle is a corrupt journalist with mob and CIA connections. So when Robert Kennedy does a campaign swing through Seth’s hometown, Seth becomes the center of rumors of assassination plots and counterplots, and the dynamic senator himself (RFK as action hero) enlists him to tackle the bad guys head-on.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Leonard (Novelist, Director and Playwright) has spent almost three years researching and writing while working at a haunted B&B in southern Louisiana SAVING RFK. He has three previously published novels: TIN SOLDIERS, COUNTING KENNEDYS and THE REVERSE MULTIPLIER EFFECT. His next book, THE CURSE OF THE DARMOOR PLANTATION: A GHOST STORY will appear soon. He has written, directed or produced over fifty professional stage shows in Los Angeles, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, Missouri, Mississippi and Newark, New Jersey. He was the executive producer for Lost Armadillo Productions in Austin, Texas for ten years and the artistic director for D’Art Productions in Los Angeles for another five. As a playwright, his seventeen plays and musicals have won several regional and national honors including The Roger L. Stevens Playwriting Award from The President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He was the Dramatic Director for the PBS television special, JOHN HENRY FAULK: THE MAN WHO BEAT THE BLACKLIST. In 2012 he wrote and directed POYDRAS: 1812 OVERTURES for the Louisiana Bicentennial. He was recently commissioned by Allegro Stage Company of San Antonio to write a musical about LBJ called LANDSLIDE LYNDON for its 2015 season.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Leonard (Novelist, Director and Playwright) has spent almost three years researching and writing while working at a haunted B&B in southern Louisiana SAVING RFK. He has three previously published novels: TIN SOLDIERS, COUNTING KENNEDYS and THE REVERSE MULTIPLIER EFFECT. His next book, THE CURSE OF THE DARMOOR PLANTATION: A GHOST STORY will appear soon. He has written, directed or produced over fifty professional stage shows in Los Angeles, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, Missouri, Mississippi and Newark, New Jersey. He was the executive producer for Lost Armadillo Productions in Austin, Texas for ten years and the artistic director for D’Art Productions in Los Angeles for another five. As a playwright, his seventeen plays and musicals have won several regional and national honors including The Roger L. Stevens Playwriting Award from The President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He was the Dramatic Director for the PBS television special, JOHN HENRY FAULK: THE MAN WHO BEAT THE BLACKLIST. In 2012 he wrote and directed POYDRAS: 1812 OVERTURES for the Louisiana Bicentennial. He was recently commissioned by Allegro Stage Company of San Antonio to write a musical about LBJ called LANDSLIDE LYNDON for its 2015 season.
244 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 14, 2014
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