Cluster of Spies

About the Book

A ranking defector shakes the National Security establishment to its core when he reveals that Washington’s most sensitive secrets routinely pass across the Russian President’s desk. Fearing that even his own organization has been penetrated, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation summons Inspector Richard Thatcher from his exile posting to Helena, Montana to conduct an off the books investigation. Thatcher’s quest takes him to the highest levels of the United States Government where he finds suspects serving in the very offices charged with protecting the nation’s secrets. Distracted by the beautiful Mavis Davis, a persistent network investigative reporter, Thatcher and his team ignore the inevitable bureaucratic resentment and carry their chase deep into the innermost regions of the White House, the CIA, the Pentagon and the FBI itself.

About the Author

A graduate of West Virginia University, Robert L Skidmore spent thirty-five years in the foreign service of the United States Government. Now long retired, he devotes himself to two lifelong passions, historical research and writing, both of which allow him to play with his computers.