The Weaver Conspiracy

“Shots fired! Shots Fired!”

Those words, shouted by Secret Service agent Claire Bradley during an open-air speech by President Richard McClure, throw into motion a series of events that will take Bradley from the sight of the shooting, Newburyport, MA, to Boston, to Washington DC, to Israel, and back again as she doggedly follows a trail as thin, as intricate—and as dangerous—as a spider’s web to find out who is behind the failed attempt to kill the president.

Bradley’s valiant actions during the shooting are caught on tape, and she is catapulted into celebrity status. Eager to gain reelection votes any way that he can, the President presses the young and attractive hero into service as investigator and media spokesperson for the executive task force he has created to probe the shooting.

But Bradley’s strong will, her intelligence, and her fierce dedication to the truth meet their match as she finds herself spending as much time staving off Washington bureaucrats to keep the truth from being trampled as she does following real leads in the investigation. Leads that include Dave Price, a Newburyport cop who seemed to be in all the right places at the right times during the shooting; Frances Dunham, a maintenance worker in the building from which the shot was fired—who has mysteriously disappeared; a terrorist on a secret Israeli hit list; a mysterious ex-CIA operative, and an international arms dealer.

Enduring political manipulation, abuse by a sadistic Israeli commando, and even death threats, Bradley is eventually able to separate solid leads from dead-ends, misinformation, and disinformation to get to the truth … a truth that many around her don’t want to hear, and a truth that even she is reluctant to believe.