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Fritz Galt (Author)
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February 2005
The President of the United States is a crook, and accountant Raymond O. Flowers is the only man who can prove it.
 
One day Raymond Flowers is a happily married man with a great job and family. The next day both his job and family are gone, the White House wants him rubbed out, he's broke and on the run and terrorists want to capture him...all because he's the key witness in a case against the President.
 
There's nowhere for Flowers to run when the White House, foreign governments and Islamic terrorists all want to track him down. But he does have one factor in his favor...Flowers is not a quitter. Not when he learns that his family may still be alive.
 
From Washington to Hollywood to Cuba to China, Flowers and a diverse group of strong-willed heroes challenge powerful forces in a full-throttle race for life, liberty, truth and justice.
 
Fritz Galt has lived in these places and he knows whereof he speaks. With the same powerful prose shown in his other thrillers, Galt gives the reader a penetrating glimpse into foreign cultures, throws a glaring spotlight on flaws in national security and evokes the strength of the American character in a story that will make you lock your doors and read all night.

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Brilliant and engrossing! A top-notch political and spy thriller! -- Steve Donaldson, author

With the world in such a precarious state these days, Galt's plots are almost too close to the truth! -- Reader Review

From the Publisher

When the President of the United States accepts a bribe from a foreign power, everyone must pay the price. And no one more so than Raymond O. Flowers, who loses his family, his job, and his freedom. As a key witness in the case, he is being squeezed ever tighter by the administration, sought by al-Qaeda for his blackmail potential, and pursued by those who bribed the President.

Abductions by foreign powers, contract hits by the CIA, a faked terrorist attack on the Academy Awards, a terrorist coup on an island nation, imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, and a wild, secret flight halfway around the world ensue. The White House lashes out in self-defense, terrorists seize on the President’s Achilles heel, and our hero fights for his life, his family, and justice.

As in his previous thrillers, Fritz Galt gives us a penetrating glimpse into foreign cultures, throws a glaring spotlight on flaws in our national security, and evokes the strength of our national character in a story that will make you lock your doors and read all night!


Product Details

  • Paperback: 380 pages
  • Publisher: Pagefree Publishing (February 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1589613635
  • ISBN-13: 978-1589613638
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,358,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Born in Wisconsin to a Swiss immigrant in 1958, Fritz Galt has lived around the world, from the Caribbean to Europe to Asia. Destined to become a writer, he penned his first novel, about a globetrotting family, at age 15 and earned a degree in fiction writing at the University of Illinois in 1980. He has since written 14 novels including the highly acclaimed thrillers The Geneva Seduction, Fatal Sting, China Gate, and The Maltese Cross. He lives with his family in China.

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Utter drivel, August 18, 2011
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The premise of this story is interesting, and in the hands of a competent writer, or one less lazy, it could have been the basis for a good thriller. Instead, we get flabby, imprecise prose full of malapropisms, grammatical mistakes, misspellings, tortured syntax, and the clumsiest attempt at rendering a regional dialect I've ever encountered. We get "characters" who are nothing more than plot devices--nothing unusual in that--but the author failed to apply even the microscopically thin veneer of humanity that's customary in genre fiction. We get situations so comically preposterous that it's difficult to believe any writer would insult his audience's intelligence with them. We get a total lack of verisimilitude because the author apparently couldn't be bothered to do any research, and lacks a vivid enough imagination to make the things he just makes up believable. I'm embarrassed for the author, his editor, and his publisher for producing this tripe, and for myself because I actually read most of it. This book is a strong contender for the title of The Worst Book I've Ever Read. At 99 cents, the price was at least 99 times as much as it's worth.
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Raymond O. Flowers sat hunched over his office computer, his right index finger poised over the button of his mouse. Read the first page
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White House, Harry Black, Attorney General, United States, Caleb Perkins, Merle Stevens, Stanley Polk, Academy Awards, Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, Department of Justice, Camp Delta, Hainan Island, Lieutenant Colonel Rodriguez, State Department, Chuck Romer, President Bernard White, Justice Department, Spirit of Kansas, William Ford, American Embassy, Kenneth Spaulding, Oval Office, General Counsel, Lori Crawford
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