THE ASSASSINS by Bob Doerr
Thanks, Marilyn for this
opportunity to be on your blog. I’ve
been focused on my writing now for ten years and have thirteen published
books. I enjoy writing and talking about
my books. A question people often asked
me is, “Where do you get all the ideas for your stories?”
I explain that after nearly thirty
years in a career that focused on criminal investigations and
counterintelligence operations and then eight years in financial planning, I
started my writing career with a plethora of ideas. The stories were all there
in my mind. The difficult part was not
coming up with a new story, rather it was disciplining myself to write them.
While I have no shortage of ideas to plot out, sometimes current events
come along and present a situation that begs to be used. This is what happened in October 2016, a
month before the national elections, and as I began my planning for a new Clint
Smith book.
I realized that I had never seen
(or at least recognized) such a politically polarized national election. What
if the side that lost the election included a few powerful people who reacted
by plotting to have the new president assassinated? For the book to work, it
didn’t matter who won the election. It seemed to me that more people disliked
each candidate than liked them. In fact, for a good part of the book I kept
referring to the president as the president rather than he or she.
Of all my books, I think this one
is the most contemporary with world events. Staying with the contemporary
theme, I set my story in Korea, and am now happy to announce the release of my
new book, The Assassins, the third book in my Clint Smith series
I’d like to share a short summary
of the book, The Assassins:
“A
disputed election has divided the nation, and a handful of senior, government
officials have conspired to have the North Koreans assassinate the President of
the United States. Believing the assassination attempt to be only days away,
Theresa Deer, Director of the Special Section, a small unit whose existence is
known by only a few in the U.S. government, sets out to interdict the man
intent on providing the North Koreans vital information about the president’s
itinerary for his visit to South Korea.
While Deer succeeds in her mission, she is severely injured and finds
herself being hunted by the North Korean assassins who still intend to
assassinate the president. Clint Smith
is sent to Korea to help Deer get back to the U.S. and finds himself caught in
a deadly game of cat and mouse with the North Koreans. With no one in the U.S.
government to turn to for help, and the South Koreans now also hunting them,
getting out of South Korea alive is looking unlikely.”
I
hope you get a chance to read and enjoy this book.
Bob
Doerr, an Air Force veteran, has thirteen published books. His past books have
won a variety of awards, and Bob was selected as the Author of the Year by the
Military Writers Society of America in 2013.
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