Executive Gambit

by Wayne Carey, Rob Davis (Illustrator)

NIGHTMARE COUP•America’s greatest fear is realized when President Trent’s personal helicopter, Marine One, blows up with him aboard. At the same time, across the Atlantic, Air Force Two carrying Vice-President Duncan McNeil explodes while landing at Rome’s international airport. Within hours a Palestinian radical fringe group called Vengeance claims credit for the assassinations. A shaken Speaker of the House, Oliver Holstein, is immediately sworn in as the new President.•Every intelligence agency of the free world is tasked with finding Husam al Din, the mysterious mastermind behind Vengeance. Then Italian officials report that the Vice-President’s personal Secret Service agent miraculously survived the crash and is recuperating in a Roman hospital. What does he know? Can he provide intelligence that might uncover the inside agents responsible for the twin terror attacks? More importantly, is he still a target of Vengeance?•The stakes have never been higher as a cunning, ruthless foe prepares to unleash a nuclear holocaust on America’s allies in the final Executive Gambit.•

180 pages, Paperback

Published September 29, 2020

About the author

Wayne Carey grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton, Isaac Asimov, and all the grand masters, which guided him toward a career in science with degrees in biology and education and provided the desire to write from an early age. He has been a pharmaceutical research scientist and a science teacher. He is the author of The Nanon Factor, a young adult contemporary science fiction thriller, and Allan Quartermain and the Beast Men, a sequel to H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines, and he has appeared in a variety of anthologies such as Legends of New Pulp Fiction. He and his wife Brenda live in the wilds of Central Pennsylvania with their three children, who provide a great deal of inspiration for his work.

Reviews

[Diane Beiswenger · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is sooo good!! I couldn't put it down. I read it in two sittings!! Many twists and turns in this story. I don't want to say too much about this story because I don't want to give out spoilers. But is well worth the time to read it.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

The storyline was amazing, a book I would read again. I don't want to give spoilers.