Powers That Be: When the Government Creates an Alliance with Organized Crime to Make Exposure Impossible [Paperback]

Bob Weir (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2001

Victor Grommack was a rising young computer executive until he drove drunk one night and killed a family of four in an accident. He lost everything he ever worked for, including his family, as he became a homeless person in the capital city of America. His life takes a drastic turn when, while sleeping in the park one morning, he sees a man's body carried to a bench by 3 men, one of whom fires a shot into the man's head and puts the gun in the hand of the deceased. Grommack's life becomes a maddening cycle of murder when he discovers that the dead man was a special assistant to the President. When he tries to tell what he saw, a team of assassins methodically kill everyone he comes in contact with. Protected by a man and woman detective team, he struggles to keep one step ahead of the powerful forces that must silence him or be silenced by him.

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"Chillingly Realistic" -- Houston Review

About the Author

Bob Weir is a former NYC police officer with more than ten years of undercover investigations and over 500 felony arrests to his credit. His first book, City To Die For was published in 1999. It details the attempted takeover of Dallas, Texas, by the Mafia in the 1940's. Mr. Weir also writes a syndicated column entitled, "Weir Only Human."

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595180884
• ISBN-13: 978-0595180882
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,510,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Powers That Be, March 14, 2002

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This review is from: Powers That Be: When the Government Creates an Alliance with Organized Crime to Make Exposure Impossible (Paperback)

I found "Powers That Be" so true to life. It is so suspenceful, with so many twists and turns that you will not want to put it down until until you have read the last word. A man witnesses a murder, a faked suicide of a high level goverment official in a park in Washington DC. It will be the beginning of his worse nightmare as a gruesome conspiracy unfolds,a massive government coverup by police and other prominent officials,all the way to the oval office. Leading to a string of murders, gangland style. When his own wife and children are threatened they will die if he talks to the two detectives that have befriended and protected him, the moment of reckening is upon him. Can good triumph over evil? or will the conpirators prevail? I'll never tell.