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by Al Pessin (Author)
A "Thought-Provoking" Story From a Former White House Press Corps Member
Steve Berry says Body Man is "crisply plotted, thought-provoking and troubling in its take on our new reality."
In this incredibly timely new political thriller, former White House and Pentagon press corps member and multi-award-winning author Al Pessin takes readers inside the corridors of power, on deployment with a Marine Corps unit, and into the secret world of militias willing to commit violence to "defend America."
Jon Land calls Body Man "a taut, terrifying, terrific political thriller that cuts to the bone . . . an all-too-credible cautionary tale ripped from tomorrow's headlines."
Body Man reads like the true story it could easily be, told by its two main characters. Spencer is the Body Man, close personal aide to a liberal senator who catapults to the presidency. Carl is a body man of a different sort, a Marine Corps sniper with a bad conduct discharge who gets drawn into the Alt-Right movement and recruited to assassinate the new president.
As America's real-life tensions explode, there are mass shootings, riots in the streets, and mutinies in the military--all things that could actually happen if we let them. And two young men have more power to determine the course of American history than they should ever have.
Body Man is a "chilling cautionary tale," says NY Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. "Al Pessin has done it again. Don't miss this one from a terrific writer."
Author Biography
Al Pessin is a former member of the White House and Pentagon press corps, a 15-year foreign correspondent, and author of the forthcoming political thriller Body Man from Amphorae Publishing.
Al's previous books, all award winners, are international military spy thrillers Sandblast, Blowback, and Shock Wave from Kensington Publishing.
All his books build on Al's decades of experience covering the highest echelons of Washington as well as some of the world's most desperate conflicts and most hopeful and inspiring moments. Al was on the scene in Afghanistan and Iraq, at Southeast Asian refugee camps, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, the rally where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, and along streets devastated by terrorist bombs.
He also reported to the world about uprisings in Beijing, Kyiv, Cairo, and Manila, as well as hope-filled elections in Egypt, Gaza, and Libya, among other places, indeed including the United States. Al was expelled from China for his coverage of the Tiananmen Massacre, accused of "illegal news gathering" and "fomenting counterrevolutionary rebellion."
Among other honors, he was named Communicator of the Year for that coverage. His novels have won a Florida Book Award and several Royal Palm Literary Awards, as well as other recognition.
Al has led writing seminars for Writers Digest and at many other online and in person events, and taught graduate-level journalism as an adjunct at Northwestern University, his alma mater.
He has published commentaries in several outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Politico, and DefenseOne.
His blogs on writing for the Florida Writers Association are at https: //floridawriters.blog/author/alpessi/. More on Al at https: //www.AlPessin.com. Contact: alpessinauthor@gmail.com.
