Queens Gate Reckoning

by Lewis Perdue

“Perdue seems to know the spy set intimately and things all work out in one of those bone-crunching, cartilage popping climaxes that the genre does so well.” Los Angeles Times

Libya, 1982. Muammar Qaddafi's top hitman, Mustapha Salem El-Nouty, is ordered to commit two assassinations that will destroy the global balance of power. But Qaddafi is just a deranged puppet, his strings pulled by a massive conspiracy born in the labyrinthine bowels of the Politburo...and the marble chambers of a seditious U.S. Government official.

And rushing headlong against this vast consortium of treason is an improbable Wounded CIA operative Nat Worthington and Tania Valente, a defecting Soviet ballerina. Together they hurtle toward the hour of ultimate international reckoning.

Praise for Lewis Perdue

“For readers who want a thriller that’s gripping and entertaining.” The Pittsburgh Press

“He can’t be accused of shorten-changing the reader on action. His books move.” Newport Daily Press

“Fast-paced and suspenseful. Excellent spy adventure reading.” Wichita Falls Times

“A sweep of events that keep the imagination working full-time.” Akron-Beacon Journal

“His books keep you eagerly turning the pages long after lights out time.” Biloxi Sun Herald

342 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2022

About the author

Lewis Perdue is the author of 20 published books: 13 thrillers (some bestselling, including 3 co-authored with Lee Goldberg). Lew has also written seven non-fiction works ranging from wine to technology.

He is currently a biomedical researcher affiliated with the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, publishes Wine Industry Insight (for the trade), is an algorithm inventor at Revolution Algorithms, and consults with early stage technology companies. He lives near Sonoma, California.

Lew is an honors graduate of Cornell University where he studied organic chemistry, biology and communications. Financially self-supporting at age 18, Perdue financed his education by working full time at two Gannett daily newspapers.

He has worked as an investigative journalist in Washington DC for Jack Anderson, and has written for The Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The Nation and other publications.

He's served as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch, and TheStreet.Com.

In addition to journalism, Lew has been Chief Marketing Officer for a technology company (Transpositional Modulation Technologies), served as a top staff member for U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, and Mississippi Governor Bill Waller. He's also been a Managing Director for MSLGroup of Publicis Worldwide.

Lew is a native of the Mississippi Delta, and -- like the hero of his thrillers, Perfect Killer & Hellhound -- is the disinherited scion of a politically powerful, Faulknerian heritage.