The Assassin

by Bob Doerr

A disputed election has divided the nation, and a handful of senior government officials have conspired to have the North Koreans assassinate the President of the United States. Believing the assassination attempt to be only days away, Theresa Deer, Director of the Special Section, a small unit whose existence is known by only a few in the U.S. government, is tasked to interdict the man intent on providing the North Koreans vital information about the president’s itinerary for his visit to South Korea. While Deer succeeds in her mission, she is severely injured and finds herself being hunted the North Korean assassins. Clint Smith is sent to Korea to help Deer get back to the U.S. and finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the North Koreans. With no one in the U.S. government to turn to for help, and the South Koreans now also looking for them, Clint approaches a wealthy American widow living in Busan for assistance. Not knowing whether she’ll help or not, Clint discovers that he has approached the one person in the city who will bring him face to face to the North Koreans and the endgame.

242 pages, Hardcover

Published June 5, 2018

About the author

Bob spent nearly thirty years in the Air Force, all of it with the Office of Special Investigations. He then spent eight years as a financial planner before getting serious about his writing. Selected in 2013 by the Military Writers Society of America as its Author of the Year, Bob has fifteen books published. His fifth book in his Jim West mystery series was a winner in the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. His book Another Colorado Kill took silver for fiction in the Stars and Flags Book Awards for 2012. The third book, Loose Ends Kill, was selected as a Finalist for the 2011 Eric Hoffer Award and then was awarded the Silver medal for Fiction/mystery at the Military Writers Society of America's 2011 conference. Cold Winter's Kill was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in 2010.