Synopses & Reviews
After having to hand back his Pulitzer Prize due to a massive cover-up scandal, Ron Wright's reputation as a journalist with the Washington Post crashed and burned, taking his marriage with it. Despite being out of the game, Ron never lost his nose for trouble. And as all good reporters know, sometimes trouble has a tendency of getting the scoop on you instead of the other way around.
After receiving a cryptic message from an old friend, Ron takes the first train from Washington D.C. to New York City--and quickly finds himself in a deadly chase after a friend and long-trusted news source ends up dead in a mysterious accident near his home in Paris. Wright, thrust into the lead of a lifetime key, must connect this bizarre turn of events to unlock one of the most cover-up secrets of the modern era: Saudi Arabian royalty has long provided funding for a powerful group in America . . . funds that have been accumulating to launch the single most vicious attack on American soil.
Beginning in France and stretching across the Middle East, Ron Wright, must enlist the help of a beautiful journalist from Al-Jazeera, to uncover the story of the century. Dodging the hail of flying bullets, running from international terrorists, and doing his best to escape those who would stop his story from ever reaching print, Ron Wright - who used to feel the most comfortable behind a computer - now finds himself under the gun...and the term "deadline" may soon have a whole new meaning.
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"Jack Anderson's
The Saudi Connection crackles with the same sizzling, revelatory excitement as his legendary Pulitzer Prize winning columns. This ripped-from-the-headlines tale of Middle Eastern skullduggery is so believable, it's difficult to tell where the truth ends and fiction begins."--Pete Earley, Edgar Award Winning author of
Lethal Secrets"Jack is back! The great Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has written a tremendous novel that reflects his immense knowledge of the Saudis. Absolutely riveting, brimming with humor and prescient with world hazard."--Walter J. Boyne, New York Times bestselling author of Roaring Thunder
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A tremendous novel that reflects [Andersons] immense knowledge of the Saudis. Absolutley riveting...prescient with world hazard. (Walter J. Boyne, New York Times bestselling author of Roaring Thunder, Dec 12 2005 )
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"An engaging novel of Middle East intrigue."--Publishers Weekly on The Saudi Connection "Combining the knowledge of veteran journalist Anderson with the storytelling skills of veteran novelist Westbrook, the book delivers plenty of action."--Booklist on The Saudi Connection "The Saudi Connection crackles with the same sizzling, revelatory excitement as his legendary Pulitzer prize winning columns."--Pete Earley, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy
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Crackles with the same sizzling, revelatory excitement as his legendary Pulitzer Prize winning columns.
Pete Earley
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A tremendous novel that reflects [Anderson's] immense knowledge of the Saudis. Absolutley riveting...prescient with world hazard.
Edgar Award Winning author of Lethal Secrets
Synopsis
Ron Wright's reputation and career as a journalist crashed and burned due to a massive cover-up scandal involving his sources. He was forced to hand back his Pulitzer Prize and his marriage crumbled. But Ron never lost his nose for troublesome leads, and as all good reporters know, sometimes trouble gets the scoop on you instead of the other way around.
After a long-trusted source is mysteriously killed, Ron receives a cryptic message that catapults him into the lead of a lifetime: Saudi Arabian royalty are funding a powerful terrorist group in America...a group with a decades-old plot to launch the most vicious attack ever perpetrated on American soil.
About the Author
Jack Anderson began writing the column "Washington Merry-Go-Round" in 1969. In 1973 he won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing Richard Nixon's lies about the U.S. tilt in the India-Pakistan War. His column was syndicated in eight hundred newspapers nationwide. He had a national talk radio program, worked as the Washington bureau chief for
Parade magazine, and was the founder of the Young Astronauts Program. He is the author of
Stormin' Norman and
Washington Exposé. He passed way in 2006.
Robert Westbrook is the author of the Howard Moon Deer Mysteries and the Left-Handed Policeman series, as well as many works of nonfiction. He lives in New Mexico.