Presidential campaigns in America history have often lent themselves to a certain degree of imagination, adventure and suspense. But perhaps none to the degree of the current race. My political suspense thriller, TOO CLOSE TO KILL? evolves from the next logical step of the American drama - an election gone mad where the checks and balances of the Twelfth and Twentieth Amendments to the US Constitution are hard -pressed to untangle the mess, especially with candidates and their allies who will stop at nothing to win.
And so the story goes...
The United States is in the grips of a major constitutional crisis as a result of a too-close - to - call presidential election in which even the Electoral College fails to select the president. This happened only once in American History - in 1864 during the Civil War when the absence of the Southern States altered the electoral numbers - hardly a time for a major legal fight! The nation had other things on its mind. But this time, the unabashedly ambitious and stunningly beautiful democratic vice president Charlotte Reid has fallen three votes short of the 270 needed to defeat the winner of the popular vote - the charismatic ex-Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Rhode Scholar and former Oklahoma Governor David Houston.
Amid the chaos, Robert Cannon, an investigator for a small Georgetown law firm, is pulled out of retirement by the CIA to carry out an assassination. Not a Cold War termination in a obscure foreign land, away from American soil for which he had become renown in intelligence circles. Rather, his target this time is a 100 year old congressman from the State of Mississippi. He balks at the thought of an in-country hit and seeks reconfirmation. But the next day, while still awaiting word from the Agency, operatives from the Pentagon contact Robert and demand he take on a similar mission. The target - an aging justice of the US Supreme Court. Coincidence? Hardly! In this too - close - to - call election, is it too close to kill?
