Doug Williams

This Far West Doug Williams

This Far West is a riveting suspense thriller about the human costs of family secrets, personal ambition and the pursuit of power. Kevin Columbus knew his father died in Vietnam. He saw the casket lowered into the ground at Arlington. So when he gets evidence in the mail that suggests otherwise, hes understandably skeptical. But when the sender, an apparent ex-CIA operative, mysteriously dies, Kevin sets out in search of his fatherand discovers an America he never dreamed existed. His friend Maxie McQueen, an ex-cop and single mother fighting for custody of her son, is struggling as a private eye after being tossed from the force for nearly killing a racist colleague. She takes a missing persons case with a twist: The subject was last observed at the scene where Sen. Richard Worth, a leading presidential candidate, was murdered 25 years earlier. As their searches converge, Walter Frost an ex-aide to Worth and now one of Washingtons most influential men watches with growing alarm. He knows the government cant, and wont, allow Maxie or Kevin to find the truth. Because if that happens, a carefully contrived fiction around Worths death will unravel spectacularly and put the nation at true risk.