SPOTLIGHT: High Hand by Curtis J. James @curtisjjames @smithpublicity
High Hand
by Curtis J. James
A
billionaire businessman with secret ties to Russia becomes the Republican
presidential candidate. Does this plot sound familiar? Years
before the rise of Donald Trump, Curtis Harris, James Ellenberger, and James
Rosen may have predicted the crazy
political landscape we have been recently experiencing in their espionage
thriller High Hand [Copper Peak
Press, January 4, 2018].
In High Hand the
billionaire Republic nominee, Stuart Roberts, is on a glide path to the White
House until a bomb explodes during a campaign rally in Los Angeles leaving him
seriously injured. Is there a connection between a bomb blast meant to kill the
presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a group of prominent men who
played poker in Moscow years ago? Fifteen years earlier, while serving as a US
ambassador to Russia, Roberts was one of the poker players in a group organized
by Frank Adams, a Moscow correspondent and top investigative reporter for the
Los Angeles Register. The story centers around Frank Adams, who is on a mission
to figure out why his old poker buddies are being targeted for assassination.
When Adams gets a call from an old
friend in Russia, he returns to his old stomping ground and risks his life in a
high-stakes bid to uncover the truth about the Republican presidential
candidate’s secret ties to Russia. In the midst
of threats to reporters, Adams discovers bizarre intervention by President
Vladimir Putin and a US spy agency’s
covert effort to alter the presidential race.
“Major
presidential candidates must be vetted very closely, especially those with
great wealth and complicated overseas business dealings,” Rosen says. “In
the Internet Age and 24/7 cable reporting, it would seem impossible that someone
like Stuart Roberts could reach the White House while shielding dangerous
aspects of his past. Yet, the current Special Counsel and congressional
investigations of President Trump’s
alleged ties to Russia reveal how real this threat is, especially when the
White House candidate is willing to conceal his past and ignore
long-established but unwritten rules of American government.”
Curtis
J. James is a pseudonym for the three writers who collaborated on this book.
They are Curtis Harris, James Ellenberger, and James Rosen.
JAMES
ELLENBERGER worked for nearly 30 years in numerous capacities with the national
AFL-CIO. A Vietnam War veteran, he has written numerous articles on
international labor affairs, social insurance and medical care for injured
workers. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
CURTIS
HARRIS is a physician-scientist who is world-renowned in the field of cancer
research. Dr. Harris has published more than 500 journal articles and 100 book
chapters, has edited 10 books, and holds more than 25 advanced biotechnology
patents owned by the US government. He is chief of the Laboratory of Human
Carcinogenesis at the NIH National Cancer Institute. He is adjunct Professor of
Oncology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
JAMES
ROSEN is an award-winning political and national security journalist who
reported from Moscow during the historic collapse of the Soviet Union. Since
then, he has covered the Pentagon, the White House and Congress, producing a
number of complex investigative articles on insecure nuclear weapons (“loose nukes”) in Russia;
alleged Saudi complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks; sleeper Islamic jihadist
cells in Europe; and a range of other cutting-edge topics.
For more information, visit www.curtisjjames.com and connect with the
authors on Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram,
and Pinterest.
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