Nov 22, 2008
Lieutenant Pevsner of Army Intelligence rushes overnight from Washington, D.C., to the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, because word has been received that Carl Gades plans to kill former president Harry Truman the next day. Truman had refused to pardon the man's only brother, Arthur, who recently died in prison after serving ten years for trying to blow up a plane.
Pevsner is assigned to this case because he is considered a “hawk,” one whose photographic memory allows him to see and then recall every detail of a scene. While on another army...
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