The Wasbash Factor

253 pages. Octavo (*8 1/2" x 5 3/4"0 bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with blue lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A rash of political deaths alerts a New York cop to an international assassination plot. At a crime scene, Harry Golding has no fear. But put him in front of a few dozen undergraduates, and he begins to sweat. He agrees to give the lecture on criminology for his brother, a New York University professor, and muddles through it, successful until it comes time for questions. A skinny young conspiracy theorist demands to know what the police are doing about the recent death of a presidential candidate. The answer is, they’re doing nothing. The man died of a heart attack. Case closed. But when another politician drops dead, seemingly of natural causes, Golding remembers the young student’s paranoia. As more politicians die, Harry Golding finds himself in the middle of a terrifying conspiracy that threatens his city, his family, and his life. Condition: Heal corners gently bumped else a near fine copy in like jacket. …